> [I tried to send this as private mail, but get > host Sparkle-4.Rodents-Montreal.ORG[216.46.5.7] refused to talk to me: > 550-.de's whois server, whois.denic.de, is completely broken, [...]
I wrote up a point-by-point reply to this, but then realized, this is tech-kern, not tech-broken-network-governance. So I'll confine myself to saying my respnse is at {ftp,http}://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/ccTLD-thoughts.txt for anyone interested. (Actually, will be at; as I send this mail, I'm still writing it - the draft is available at .../ccTLD-thoughts-draft.txt and I'll move it when I'm done.) As for the content... >> I don't recall full details, but I think it was a Linux distro > It was the Debian OpenSSL desaster. In essence, they patched > OpenSSL's entropy gathering to the point where the PID was the only > entropy source being used. Ah. Yeah, that'll do it. Thanks for the correction; I'm not surprised I got some of the details wrong - but the actual incident works just as well for the argument I was making with it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B