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Comment Re:OpenBSD and Wi-Fi (Score 1) 290

by farhaven on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @05:07PM (#46412657) Attached to: Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will

OpenBSD does their crypto in userland

Where do you get that from? "Classical" WPA2 with preshared keys is entirely handled inside the kernel, with support for WPA Enterprise provided by wpa-supplicant.

Other areas where crypto is required are also in-kernel, such as IPSec packet encryption, with key management done in userspace, the random number generator and the softraid crypto target.

Of course these interact with userspace, for example to configure keys or other algorithm parameters, but the crypto itself runs inside the kernel.

Comment This just in... (Score 1) 620

by farhaven on Monday August 09, 2010 @04:25PM (#33194748) Attached to: <em>EVE</em> Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game

... I'm out of milk. Maybe I'll have to ask mommy to get me some because I don't like touching the real world or going out of my basement for that matter :(

Researcher Resurrects the First Computer 149

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 10, 2009 @10:56AM from the how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-randomly-select-the-ways dept.

aleph60 writes "A German researcher is about to resurrect the first fully electronic general-purpose stored-program computer, the Manchester Mark 1 (1948). The functional replica will run the source code of an original program from 1952 by Christopher Strachey, whose sole purpose was generating love letters; it is historically interesting as one of the first examples of a text-generating program. The installation will be shown at an art exhibition in Germany at the end of April." Here is researcher David Link's Manchester Mark I emulator home, which generates a new love poem on each page load. When the Mark I had been used to search for new Mersenne primes in 1949, a press account coined the phrase "electronic brain" to characterize it.

Advanced Open Source Engine Based On Quake 3 137

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 10, 2009 @06:12AM from the something-on-rails dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix is running a news story about the XreaL project, which its lead developer claims is the most advanced open-source game engine. XreaL is based upon the vintage Quake 3 engine, but it has been rewritten over the course of many months such that it no longer resembles the original id Software engine. The XreaL engine has its renderer written entirely in GLSL with compliance toward the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification in mind, but it supports the new OpenGL 3.0/3.1 specification and is able to take advantage of its new features. XreaL has also added an HDR pipeline to its engine and on modern hardware is actually GPU — not CPU — bottlenecked. XreaL can also load game content from Unreal Tournament 3. This engine, which is described to be as powerful as what can be found in Doom 3 or Call of Duty 4, is written entirely with free software. The XreaL project has created plug-ins for Maya to broaden their game development capabilities."

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