rand-test

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 
 
 
 
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"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?

.pm

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