Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751685AbWEPI3E (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 04:29:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751687AbWEPI3E (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 04:29:04 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.137]:38268 "EHLO mtagate4.uk.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751685AbWEPI3D (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 04:29:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:28:59 +0300 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Alan Cox , Jonathan Day , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zvika Gutterman Subject: Re: /dev/random on Linux Message-ID: <20060516082859.GD18645@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> References: <20060515213956.31627.qmail@web31508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1147732867.26686.188.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060516025003.GC18645@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1418 Lines: 33 On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 04:15:19AM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On May 15, 2006, at 22:50, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > >On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:41:07PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > >>A paper by people who can't work out how to mail linux-kernel or > >>vendor-sec, or follow "REPORTING-BUGS" in the source, > > > >Zvi did contact Matt Mackall, the current /dev/random maintainer, > >and was very keen on discussing the paper with him. I don't think > >he got any response. > > So he's demanding that one person spend time responding to his > paper? Who said anything about demanding? he wanted to discuss the paper. He received no response (AFAIK). Please don't read more into it. > The "maintainer" for any given piece of the kernel is the > entry in MAINTAINERS *and* linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org *and* the > appropriate sub-mailing-list. For security related information, it is sometimes best not to tell the whole world about it immediately (although you should definitely tell the whole world about it eventually). It should've probably been posted to lkml when mpm didn't respond, I agree. I'll take the blame for not suggesting that to Zvi. Cheers, Muli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/