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Roger Marquis wrote: > [snip] > >It takes all of 2 seconds to generate a ssh 2 new session on a >500Mhz cpu (causing less than 20% utilization). Considering that >99% of even the most heavily loaded servers have more than enough >cpu for this task I don't really see it as an issue. > >Also, by generating a different key for each session you get better >entropy,

Is anyone successfully using some sort of hardware crypto solution to combat the overhead of SSL in http transactions? I'd love to hear anything good or bad about this. -Bill -- -=| Bill Swingle - <unfurl@(dub.net|freebsd.org)> -=| Every message PGP signed -=| PGP Fingerprint: C1E3 49D1 EFC9 3EE0 EA6E 6414 5200 1C95 8E09 0223 -=| "Computers are useless. They can only give you

What would be a good POP daemon to use? I know there are a few in the mail ports. Are they any good? What I mean by good is 'secure as possible' (is there really such thing as being totally secure / invulnerable?) Cheers

Hi, I was looking at the crypt(3) manpage, and I'm having a hard time figuring out what the allowed characters are for the salt in md5 and blowfish encryption. For DES, it clearly states that only numbers, letters and digits may be used. Does anyone know the rules for md5/blowfish salt characters? Thanks, Charles -- Charles Sprickman spork@inch.com

Using OpenSSL, is there a preferred/recommended rate of rekeying an encrypted stream of data? Does OpenSSL handle this for developers behind the scenes? Does it even need to be rekeyed? Thanks in advance. -sc -- Sean Chittenden -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 202 bytes Desc: not available

In FreeBSD 5.x only telnet/telnetd works 'out of box' with kerberos. Why ftp/ftpd, ssh/sshd and cvs do not support kerberos ? Thanks!

...you can't go far wrong if you use DocBook or DocBook/XML. Whatever you use for your document, be prepared to modify the markup, so the safest may be plain ole ASCII. PS: When I get back, I'll also look at the issue of an open security-questions@ list. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH

I'm constructing a Web server which may require restricted areas of the site to be used from public places where a password might be sniffed. The damage that could be done by taking snapshots of the content from one session with a spy program is minimal. What the owner of the server does NOT want, though, is to allow unauthorized parties to gain unfettered access by stealing the password via

Hi. I've been playing a bit with "use sound card as an entropy source" idea. This simple program does what I wanted: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/misc/sndrand.tbz The program is very simple, it should be run with two arguments: % sndtest /dev/dspW 1048576 > rand.data This command will generate 1MB of random data. With my sound card: pcm0: <Intel ICH3 (82801CA)>

Howdie, Is there a way to get the default BSD 5.3 openssh to compile against the MIT kerberos libraries? I have set NO_KERBEROS=yes in /etc/make.conf so that the heimdal kerberos is not built, and rebuilt world, then installed /usr/ports/security/krb5 and rebuilt world again. sshd is however not being built against MIT at all. [root@foobar] ~ # ldd /usr/sbin/sshd /usr/sbin/sshd: