Re: [arch-general] [arch-gen] does using tmp-rng enables tpm at all?

2014-12-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Daniel Micay wrote: > > Ivy Bridge and later have an RDRAND instruction exposing a hardware > random number generator so there's no need for any TPM stuff. RDSEED > will be provided by Broadwell and later for lower-level access to the > hardware entropy rather th

Re: [arch-general] [arch-gen] does using tmp-rng enables tpm at all?

2014-12-24 Thread Daniel Micay
On 24/12/14 02:45 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > Seems like on i5 and i7 chips the way to get random numbers through HW > is to use tpm-rng (intel-rng is no longer available for them). An by > reading [1] seems like a pretty good idea. > > However I have no intention to use tpm at all, neit

Re: [arch-general] [arch-gen] does using tmp-rng enables tpm at all?

2014-12-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > Seems like on i5 and i7 chips the way to get random numbers through HW > is to use tpm-rng (intel-rng is no longer available for them). An by > reading [1] seems like a pretty good idea. > > However I have no intention to use tpm at

[arch-general] [arch-gen] does using tmp-rng enables tpm at all?

2014-12-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, Seems like on i5 and i7 chips the way to get random numbers through HW is to use tpm-rng (intel-rng is no longer available for them). An by reading [1] seems like a pretty good idea. However I have no intention to use tpm at all, neither I want any possibility to get any one monitoring my ma

Re: [arch-general] Missing fonts in KeePass

2014-12-24 Thread P. A. López-Valencia
On 24/12/14 09:15, Sadika Sumanapala wrote: > Ahh. Yes, that will happen because chromium based browsers use an internal (and older) fontconfig. A shame really. The other alternative is to replace the files: > 30-metric-aliases.conf > 45-latin.conf > 60-latin.conf > in /etc/fonts/con

Re: [arch-general] Missing fonts in KeePass

2014-12-24 Thread Sadika Sumanapala
> Ahh. Yes, that will happen because chromium based browsers use an internal (and older) fontconfig. A shame really. The other alternative is to replace the files: > 30-metric-aliases.conf > 45-latin.conf > 60-latin.conf > in /etc/fonts/conf.avail with copies from fontconfig's git repo trunk