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- A PDF of the IPv6 handout, from the April SemiBUG meeting, is available.
- Adventures in Time, part 1: Interfacing an Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator to a Computer Running NetBSD. (via)
- Replace the RC4 algorithm for generating in-kernel secure random numbers with Chacha20. (via)
- 9 lessons from 25 years of Linux kernel development. None of those lessons are specific to Linux; they apply to all the BSDs, for instance. (via)
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- (finally) investigating how to get dynamic WDS (DWDS) working in FreeBSD!
- OPNsense 17.1.5 released.
- The many ways of running firefox on OpenBSD.
- Michael W. Lucas’s Penguicon 2017 Schedule.
- iXsystems TrueNAS Certified with Veeam Backup.
- OpenBSD 6.1 Song Released.
Will DragonFly be changing its arc4random algorithm to ChaCha20 as well?
@Anon
you did some research, right?
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release40/
@NoobCrusher
If DragonFly replaced RC4 with ChaCha20 in arc4random, why does a comment in a commit from last month still talk about shuffling RC4 in arc4random?
https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blobdiff/d8c85757e795ea753bd0625eb344c8220e7a048e..32cfd90abb8f7f3ac599de95e6da27afe5b1c771:/lib/libc/gen/arc4random.c
@Anon
when you look at gitweb you’ll see that Dragonfly is using IBAA or Fortuna (see 4.0 releasenotes) for a very long time now to generate randomness. Also there’s nothing to replace in arc4random (the libc function) because it’s using /dev/random (which in turn comes from IBAA or Fortuna…)