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alexh

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  • Registered on: 02/01/2009
  • Last connection: 06/09/2015

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Assigned issues 4 30 34
Reported issues 2 23 25

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DragonFlyBSD Reporter, Manager, Developer 02/01/2009

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06/09/2015

06:05 AM DragonFlyBSD Bug #2824 (Rejected): New higher speed CRC code
alexh
06:04 AM DragonFlyBSD Bug #2824: New higher speed CRC code
It doesn't save any operation/instruction with an optimizing compiler.
Even though it should be obvious, just to b...
alexh

01/19/2015

08:21 AM DragonFlyBSD Bug #1689 (Closed): IBAA recommendation
robin.carey1 wrote:
> Dear Alex,
>
> You keep referring to it (i.e. /dev/random) as a "CSPRNG"; that is
> incorr...
alexh
06:24 AM DragonFlyBSD Bug #1689: IBAA recommendation
We should stay away from non-reviewed work in this area. Bob Jenkins' IBAA/ISAAC implementations have been used and r... alexh

01/15/2015

08:52 AM DragonFlyBSD Bug #1358 (Rejected): Random number generator
The entropy file solution is absolutely standard (but was disabled for a long time on DragonFly), and one of the very... alexh
07:37 AM DragonFlyBSD Bug #1358: Random number generator
This has never been relevant. The only way to ensure the system starts up with (enough) entropy is to save some on sh... alexh

08/07/2014

02:09 PM DragonFlyBSD Revision 519061ed (dragonflybsd): rc.d/ppp: add support for -unitN override
* Man page changes taken from FreeBSD. alexh

07/24/2014

11:05 PM DragonFlyBSD Revision ad4174a4 (dragonflybsd): csprng - Add copyright & comment around sleep code
alexh
01:57 PM DragonFlyBSD Revision 2aa3f894 (dragonflybsd): csprng - fix unused variable
alexh
01:54 PM DragonFlyBSD Revision 347b581f (dragonflybsd): csprng - don't wait for entropy for the ratectl'ed reseed
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