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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 10:00:24 GMT
From: "Dr. Markus Waldeck" <waldeck@gmx.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: man 4 random has a URL as reference
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>Number:         101564
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       man 4 random has a URL as reference
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 07 10:00:30 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:    Fri Oct 13 14:16:32 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Sat Oct 14 09:30:23 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Dr. Markus Waldeck
>Release:        6.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
There a two problems.

1. It is inconvenient to find a URL in a man page which requires online access!

2. man 4 random claims that:

     The other variables are explained in the paper describing the Yarrow
     algorithm at http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow.html.

     These variables are all limited in terms of the values they may contain:
	   kern.random.yarrow.gengateinterval  [4..64]
	   kern.random.yarrow.bins	       [2..16]
	   kern.random.yarrow.fastthresh       [64..256]
	   kern.random.yarrow.slowthresh       [64..256]
	   kern.random.yarrow.slowoverthresh   [1..5]

Scheiers paper explains the algoritm but does not consider the meaning to the variables.


>How-To-Repeat:
man 4 random
>Fix:
Add a useful explanation!
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 13 14:16:30 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
The URL is required to understand the Yarrow protocol, we cannot remove 
that eventhough it requires internet access for this. Closing the PR. 
Facilitated by: Snow B.V. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101564 

From: waldeck@hk2.uwaterloo.ca
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/101564: man 4 random has a URL as reference
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:21:11 -0400 (EDT)

 Hi,
 
 > Synopsis: man 4 random has a URL as reference
 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: remko
 > State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 13 14:16:30 UTC 2006
 > State-Changed-Why: 
 > The URL is required to understand the Yarrow protocol, we cannot remove
 > that eventhough it requires internet access for this. Closing the PR.
 > Facilitated by: Snow B.V.
 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101564
 
 Did you read the last sentence in my PR?
 
 >> Scheiers paper explains the algoritm but does not consider the meaning to the variables.
 
 This is still true!
 
 Dr. Markus Waldeck
>Unformatted:
