User contributions for Synchronicity
A user with 123 edits. Account created on 15 November 2011.
17 February 2023
- 04:5004:50, 17 February 2023 diff hist +644 Talk:Random number generation Re: Removing "OpenSSL issues" section current
- 04:4004:40, 17 February 2023 diff hist −794 Random number generation Remove the "OpenSSL issues" section
8 February 2023
- 07:4507:45, 8 February 2023 diff hist −4 m Random number generation Small wording tweak
- 07:3707:37, 8 February 2023 diff hist −239 Random number generation Remove some links from the note at the beginning of the "Kernel built-in RNG" section. These were redundant with the list of links given later on
6 February 2023
- 08:1408:14, 6 February 2023 diff hist +101 Talk:Random number generation →Removing "OpenSSL issues" section: - add missing signature
- 08:1208:12, 6 February 2023 diff hist +590 Talk:Random number generation Re: References for update
- 08:0208:02, 6 February 2023 diff hist +271 Talk:Random number generation Re: Outdated
- 08:0008:00, 6 February 2023 diff hist −21 Random number generation Link to a LWN article to give some more context about one of the kernel RNG changes
- 07:5307:53, 6 February 2023 diff hist +38 N /dev/urandom Create "/dev/urandom" as a redirect to "Random number generation". "/dev/random" already redirects to the same place, and /dev/urandom is basically the same thing these days; the page covers both. current Tag: New redirect
- 07:4007:40, 6 February 2023 diff hist +1,027 Random number generation Add some up-to-date references for the kernel RNG
- 07:2307:23, 6 February 2023 diff hist −88 Random number generation Remove the link to "A challenge on /dev/random robustness". This 10-year old paper analyzed a very old version of the kernel RNG, so its results generally don't apply to the current version. Also, the security model it evaluated the RNG under is unrealistic. All in all, there are much more useful things that could be linked to..
- 06:4106:41, 6 February 2023 diff hist −122 Random number generation Remove the link to RFC 4086. This document is 18 years old, and the section describing /dev/random in Linux, which was being linked to, is completely outdated.
- 06:3706:37, 6 February 2023 diff hist −160 Random number generation Delete a heavily outdated link to a mailing list discussion describing the jitterentropy library by Stephan Mueller, which is not a topic covered in the page. This link was incorrectly described as being about the throughput of /dev/random. /dev/random does have much higher throughput than it used to, for reasons unrelated to this mailing list discussion.
- 06:3106:31, 6 February 2023 diff hist −149 Random number generation Delete the link to "Linux Random Number Generator – A New Approach". That describes a kernel patchset that was never upstreamed, and it is/was totally separate from the actual improvements that have been upstreamed.
- 06:2906:29, 6 February 2023 diff hist +28 Random number generation Replace the link to the "premature next" paper with a link to the commit where the Linux RNG stopped caring about that security model
- 05:4805:48, 6 February 2023 diff hist +675 Talk:Random number generation Removing "OpenSSL issues" section
- 05:3905:39, 6 February 2023 diff hist +177 Random number generation Mark "OpenSSL issues" section for removal
- 05:2405:24, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,003 Random number generation Rewrite the "Alternatives" section. As this section was very short anyway, I'm doing this in one change. I dropped the reference to rng-tools because it is no longer needed (e.g., see its Wiki page). I dropped the mention of Yarrow and Fortuna because the theoretical design of RNGs, especially designs not used in Linux, is off-topic for this article.
- 02:4002:40, 6 February 2023 diff hist +77 Random number generation Try to do a better job explaining the difference between /dev/urandom and /dev/random.
- 01:3301:33, 6 February 2023 diff hist +897 User talk:Synchronicity Re: RNG edit
- 00:4500:45, 6 February 2023 diff hist +307 Random number generation Mention why the CRNGs become initialized quickly on x86
- 00:3200:32, 6 February 2023 diff hist +242 Random number generation Restore the recommendation to use /dev/random for long-term keys (sort of)
- 00:0400:04, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,050 User talk:Synchronicity Respond regarding RNG edit
2 February 2023
- 08:3608:36, 2 February 2023 diff hist +444 Talk:Random number generation Re: outdated material
- 08:0608:06, 2 February 2023 diff hist −3,305 Random number generation Rewrite and greatly simplify the "Kernel built-in RNG" section, which had become heavily outdated due to kernel changes.
- 06:0806:08, 2 February 2023 diff hist −878 GnuPG Remove obsolete "Not enough random bytes available" troubleshooting tip. This can no longer happen on the kernels supported by Arch Linux, due to improvements in the kernel's RNG.
31 December 2022
- 19:2919:29, 31 December 2022 diff hist +3 m Fscrypt Wording: use => set up
- 19:2019:20, 31 December 2022 diff hist +51 Fscrypt Link to kernel docs in introduction
- 19:1619:16, 31 December 2022 diff hist −14 Fscrypt Use "fscrypt" only for the userspace tool, and "Linux native file encryption" for the kernel feature. This is like what https://github.com/google/fscrypt/blob/master/README.md does. Before the most recent edits, text formatting was used to distinguish between the two meanings of fscrypt, but that evidently was too confusing.
- 18:5818:58, 31 December 2022 diff hist −12 Fscrypt Italicize "pam_fscrypt", for consistency with the recent changes that italicized "fscrypt"
- 06:3206:32, 31 December 2022 diff hist +294 Fscrypt Mention that this article is mostly irrelevant for systemd-homed. Also consistently use code font for "fscrypt" when the program is meant.
4 November 2022
- 21:3821:38, 4 November 2022 diff hist −171 Fscrypt Drop the tip about using debugfs to remove the encrypt flag from ext4. This was there in case the kernel or GRUB did not understand the filesystem. This is no longer an issue except for software versions way older than those supported by Arch Linux. Also, debugfs is a low-level tool and generally should not be used.
- 21:3221:32, 4 November 2022 diff hist −885 Fscrypt Simplify the article by dropping info about older kernels. All the kernel versions that were mentioned are significantly older than the oldest kernel supported by Arch Linux.
29 October 2022
- 20:2320:23, 29 October 2022 diff hist +109 Fscrypt Mention that "f2fscrypt" is not recommended
19 December 2021
- 21:2521:25, 19 December 2021 diff hist −4 Fscrypt "Append before" doesn't make sense; say "insert before".
- 21:2221:22, 19 December 2021 diff hist −30 Fscrypt Stop recommending the drop_caches and lock_policies options for pam_fscrypt, since they are no longer necessary in fscrypt 0.3.0 and later.
14 June 2021
- 22:1322:13, 14 June 2021 diff hist −22 Fscrypt Update an external link
6 April 2021
- 18:2618:26, 6 April 2021 diff hist −32 Fscrypt Stop recommending the drop_caches and lock_policies options for pam_fscrypt, since they have been removed in the latest version of fscrypt (v0.3.0)
3 March 2021
- 19:3919:39, 3 March 2021 diff hist +155 Fscrypt The session module pam_fscrypt.so should go before pam_systemd.so, as per https://github.com/google/fscrypt/pull/278
- 19:2519:25, 3 March 2021 diff hist −58 Fscrypt Move ext4 block size check out of main text, as it's only relevant for kernel versions older than 5.5, and all official Arch Linux kernel packages are 5.10 or later now.
- 19:0819:08, 3 March 2021 diff hist +1 Fscrypt filesystem => file system (for consistency with rest of article)
22 May 2020
- 04:0704:07, 22 May 2020 diff hist +36 Fscrypt container support has been released
14 May 2020
- 02:4802:48, 14 May 2020 diff hist +464 Fscrypt Improve recommendations for login protectors
9 May 2020
- 21:4021:40, 9 May 2020 diff hist +30 Fscrypt Use correct terminology for locking directories
18 April 2020
- 06:4206:42, 18 April 2020 diff hist −12 Fscrypt container support has been merged
- 06:3906:39, 18 April 2020 diff hist +33 Fscrypt Show v2 policy in homedir encryption example (since v2 policies are the default now)
7 April 2020
- 01:5301:53, 7 April 2020 diff hist −1 Fscrypt Fix some sentences after change to third-person
26 March 2020
- 23:1823:18, 26 March 2020 diff hist −306 Fscrypt With fscrypt 0.2.7 and later, 'fscrypt setup' automatically sets policy_version 2. So it no longer needs to be listed as a manual step.
19 February 2020
- 03:4303:43, 19 February 2020 diff hist −4 Data-at-rest encryption There's now an official package for the fscrypt userspace tool
23 January 2020
- 04:1904:19, 23 January 2020 diff hist +485 Fscrypt Improve the "Alternatives to consider" section