Re: [Wikitech-l] New cryptographic random number generator up for review

2012-03-05 Thread Platonides
On 29/02/12 10:09, Antoine Musso wrote: Daniel Friesen wrote: No, no, not a wiki. Let's fork the basic core code we use in MediaWiki (routing code, WebRequest, database code, etc...) and turn it into a framework library that can be shared with other applications. And then use that to write a

Re: [Wikitech-l] New cryptographic random number generator up for review

2012-02-29 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 21/02/12 14:55, Magnus Manske a écrit : On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Antoine Mussohashar+...@free.fr wrote: I have started hacking PHPBB. -- The new Magnus Huh? Sorry Magnus, Was just referring to how you hacked up a new PHP software to replace UseModWiki. -- Antoine hashar

Re: [Wikitech-l] New cryptographic random number generator up for review

2012-02-29 Thread Antoine Musso
Daniel Friesen wrote: No, no, not a wiki. Let's fork the basic core code we use in MediaWiki (routing code, WebRequest, database code, etc...) and turn it into a framework library that can be shared with other applications. And then use that to write a new blogging engine. I would love to have

Re: [Wikitech-l] New cryptographic random number generator up for review

2012-02-21 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 21/02/12 03:33, Daniel Friesen a écrit : The class was committed in r111964 but backed out till after the git migration: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/111964 If you want to try out and test

Re: [Wikitech-l] New cryptographic random number generator up for review

2012-02-21 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 21/02/12 13:09, Chad a écrit : Please, no more branches. In fact, it would be super useful if everyone could find something else to do and stop committing entirely until after the migration;-) Hey guys, lets start an online encyclopedia written using a forum. I have started hacking PHPBB.

Re: [Wikitech-l] New cryptographic random number generator up for review

2012-02-21 Thread Magnus Manske
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: I have started hacking PHPBB.  -- The new Magnus Huh? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New cryptographic random number generator up for review

2012-02-21 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:51:59 -0800, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 21/02/12 13:09, Chad a écrit : Please, no more branches. In fact, it would be super useful if everyone could find something else to do and stop committing entirely until after the migration;-) Hey guys, lets

[Wikitech-l] New cryptographic random number generator up for review

2012-02-20 Thread Daniel Friesen
The sources and methods we've been using for the generation of security tokens in our code has been either fairly inadequate or has system support issues. -- TL;DR portion -- In the installer we try to use /dev/urandom directly. While this is a good source it's not available in some

Re: [Wikitech-l] New cryptographic random number generator up for review

2012-02-20 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 21/02/12 03:33, Daniel Friesen a écrit : The class was committed in r111964 but backed out till after the git migration: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/111964 If you want to try out and test the class yourself you can get it into your trunk svn checkout by using: $ svn