Re: Search for porterbox machines on the command line

2014-06-13 Thread James McCoy
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 02:48:05PM -0400, Jon Bernard wrote: > Heya, I just created a small utility that dumps the porterbox machine > list to stdout, which makes looking up a test machine for a particular > architecture much quicker (at least for me). I'll add my script[0] to the list as well. I

Re: use of RDRAND in $random_library

2014-06-13 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 06:51:44PM +, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > I would expect that if the NSA wanted to take control of the RDRAND or > the rest of the CPU, they'd dynamically update the microcode in the > CPU to change how it behaves. To do this, it appears that they'd need > to sign a microco

Bug#751543: ITP: r-cran-bbmisc -- GNU R Miscellaneous helper functions for B. Bischl

2014-06-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-bbmisc Version : 1.6-1 Upstream Author : Bernd Bischl * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BBmisc/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: R Description : GNU R Miscellane

Re: Search for porterbox machines on the command line

2014-06-13 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Jon Bernard wrote: > https://github.com/jbernard/porterbox Ick. I usually just spell that "ldapsearch". ldapsearch -h db.debian.org -x -b dc=debian,dc=org 'purpose=porterbox' My shell history suggests I tend to throw in a couple of things to pretty up the output (an

Bug#751519: ITP: openjdk-9 -- OpenJDK 9 - Open source implementation of the Java Platform Standard Edition 9

2014-06-13 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: openjdk-9 Version : 9~b17 Upstream Author : Oracle Corporation * URL : http://openjdk.java.net * License : GPL-2 with Classpath Exception Programming Lang: Java, C++ Description : Op

Re: use of RDRAND in $random_library

2014-06-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Joey Hess wrote: > int cpu_has_rdrand() > { > uint32_t ax,bx,cx,dx,func=1; > __asm__ volatile ("cpuid":\ > "=a" (ax), "=b" (bx), "=c" (cx), "=d" (dx) : "a" (func)); > return (cx & 0x4000); > } That's actually buggy on any platform building position-independent code (com

Re: Search for porterbox machines on the command line

2014-06-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jon Bernard , 2014-06-13, 14:48: I just created a small utility that dumps the porterbox machine list to stdout, which makes looking up a test machine for a particular architecture much quicker (at least for me). I wasn't aware of anything like this in existence, please correct me if I'm wron

Re: use of RDRAND in $random_library

2014-06-13 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 6/13/14, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:09:02AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: >> > Excuse me if I'm blunt here, but I understand that, on the point of >> > using entropy to seed a PRNG, if you have several shitty entropy >> > sources and one _really_ good one, and you

Search for porterbox machines on the command line

2014-06-13 Thread Jon Bernard
Heya, I just created a small utility that dumps the porterbox machine list to stdout, which makes looking up a test machine for a particular architecture much quicker (at least for me). I wasn't aware of anything like this in existence, please correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe someone will find it u

Re: use of RDRAND in $random_library

2014-06-13 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Now, the kernel can soft-blacklist RDRAND (and RDSEED) usage[2]. In that > case, the kernel won't use it and it disappears from /proc/cpuinfo, and we > could do that also to avoid processor errata, not just due to user request. > However, AFAIK kernel blacklist

Bug#751509: ITP: icinga2 -- host and network monitoring system

2014-06-13 Thread Markus Frosch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Markus Frosch * Package name: icinga2 Version : 2.0.0~beta2 Upstream Author : Icinga Development Team * URL : http://www.icinga.org/ * License : GPL-2+ with OpenSSL exceptions Programming Lang: C++ with Boost Descrip

Re: use of RDRAND in $random_library

2014-06-13 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:09:02AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > Excuse me if I'm blunt here, but I understand that, on the point of > > using entropy to seed a PRNG, if you have several shitty entropy > > sources and one _really_ good one, and you xor them all together, the > > resultin

Re: use of RDRAND in $random_library

2014-06-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Joey Hess wrote: > I don't have a stong opinion on the security of RDRAND, which is a > contentious topic in a domain I am not expert in. However, I would much > rather rely on linux developers to make the right decision on that, > rather than libraries deciding on an ad-hoc ba

Re: new bug severity "new upstream"

2014-06-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:13:17 +0200 Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > would it be reasonable to introduce a new bug severity > "new upstream"? That's not a single severity, it is just one part of the bug itself. New upstream versions can be a bad idea and require significant work to harmoni

Re: use of RDRAND in $random_library

2014-06-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Martijn van Oosterhout dijo [Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:09:02AM +0200]: > > Excuse me if I'm blunt here, but I understand that, on the point of > > using entropy to seed a PRNG, if you have several shitty entropy > > sources and one _really_ good one, and you xor them all together, the > > resulting o

new bug severity "new upstream"

2014-06-13 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, would it be reasonable to introduce a new bug severity "new upstream"? Regards Harri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/539adccd.9040...@aixi

Re: debian/watch problem

2014-06-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > Hello, > > I'm struggling to get debian/watch working for the package jing-trang. > The problem is upstream says Google no longer allows publishing > tarballs under [0]. So they only have tag for the latest release [1]. > My question is, is

Re: debian/watch problem

2014-06-13 Thread Colin Tuckley
On 13/06/14 11:50, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > I'm struggling to get debian/watch working for the package jing-trang. > The problem is upstream says Google no longer allows publishing > tarballs under [0]. We are having the same problem with the abcde package, our solution has been to move the code ba

debian/watch problem

2014-06-13 Thread Eugene Zhukov
Hello, I'm struggling to get debian/watch working for the package jing-trang. The problem is upstream says Google no longer allows publishing tarballs under [0]. So they only have tag for the latest release [1]. My question is, is it possible to write a d/watch file for that? [0] https://code.goo

Re: holes in secure apt

2014-06-13 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:35:39 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 10:30 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > The buildd-related software (and most people when doing manual builds > > with cowbuilder) uses “apt-get source foo” to download the file, fully > > assuming that

Re: use of RDRAND in $random_library

2014-06-13 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 13 June 2014 06:27, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Excuse me if I'm blunt here, but I understand that, on the point of > using entropy to seed a PRNG, if you have several shitty entropy > sources and one _really_ good one, and you xor them all together, the > resulting output is as random as the best

Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-13 Thread Russell Stuart
There was a thread on d-private in early March about the benefits and downsides to to requiring every DD and aspiring DD to sign their messages. One of the reasons raised for not doing it is some felt uncomfortable carrying around their GPG keys when travelling. My initial reaction was "that's be