Friend, The following information from CIAC Bulletin G-04: X Authentication Vulnerability November 20, 1995 22:00 GMT may be of use to you: If you cannot use DES, you can determine your expo- sure to remote attackers by testing the strength of your rand() function using the program rand-test; the source is available as ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/DOCS/rand-test/rand-test.c Cordially, Jim NOTE. To subscribe to CIAC Bulletin, email to ciac-listproc@llnl.gov the one-line message subscribe ciac-bulletin <your last name>, <your first name> <your phone number> for example: subscribe ciac-bulletin Adolphus, Gustavus 000-000-0000 x00
Perry Metzger <perry@piermont.com> writes:
"James M. Cobb" writes:
Friend,
The following information from
1) You are not my friend.
2) My private mail to you hasn't convinced you to stop this barrage of reposts. Would you please do so?
I am inclined to agree with Perry in as much as the volume of posts to the cypherpunks list is greatly increased by reposts of news from other mailing lists, USENET newsgroups, WWW sources, newspapers, TV programs, films, books, talks, etc. While some of the information posted is interesting, and relevant, some others are less relevant, bordering on noise. It is much more efficient of list bandwidth to post short pointers only, of the style John Young <jya@pipeline.com> posts. Or an alternative I have been thinking might be useful: a separate list. The proposal: a separate list for current-event reports/news/reposts. I think it would be useful if a separate mailing list were set up on toad.com, called say "cypherpunks-news@toad.com" (or whatever) to distinguish it from the main cypherpunks list. That way people who aren't interested to read reposts just don't subscribe to cypherpunks-news, and those who want to catch up on cypherpunks related current events, media reports etc, can browse through the archives for cypherpunks-news. What do others think? Adam
A.Back@exeter.ac.uk writes:
It is much more efficient of list bandwidth to post short pointers only, of the style John Young <jya@pipeline.com> posts.
I agree with you. John's posts are not always strictly on topic but they are always just pointers, and he typically posts them in a single group a day. They are also always very high quality information. I find them to be perfectly fine. The recent "Friend;" stuff just annoyed me, though. Perry
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