From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 2/3] build: replace host-mkpasswd with host-busybox
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:53:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180618085330.4ba65fef@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1qwllsa.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk>
Hello,
On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 07:13:25 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >> Just to be clear: does everybody agree that it is a good idea to use
> >> weakly-random numbers as salt, rather than real random numbers like whois does?
>
> > Not really, no. That is definitely no good. I was not aware of how bad
> > the busybox salt generator was.. Sigh....
>
> If that is the only problem then we could still use it and pass our own
> salt, but that leaves the problem of coming up with a sufficiently
> random salt. I guess we could do something with reading /dev/urandom and
> base64 encoding it.
>
> But yeah, just going for the python implementation may be the easiest.
Once again, what is the problem with the current solution we have ?
We have been happy with it for several years, and the only thing that
prompted this discussion is that it failed to build on Fedora 28, which
was fixed by a 3 lines change. Is it really worth it changing this
stuff ?
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-18 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-02 9:05 [Buildroot] [PATCH] host-mkpasswd: fix crash on Fedora 28 build host Stefan Becker
2018-05-02 17:57 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-05-02 18:23 ` Stefan Becker
2018-05-02 20:38 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-05-02 21:04 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-05-03 6:11 ` Stefan Becker
2018-05-02 21:06 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-05-03 19:56 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-05-03 20:04 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-05-06 16:19 ` Stefan Becker
2018-05-07 15:00 ` M ZV
2018-05-08 21:37 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-05-09 20:22 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-05-10 16:02 ` M ZV
2018-05-29 7:37 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-05-30 15:31 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-05-30 16:45 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-06-01 12:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH proposal/next] replace host-mkpasswd Stefan Becker
2018-06-01 12:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH proposal/next 1/2] package/busybox: add host variant Stefan Becker
2018-06-01 13:03 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-06-01 12:59 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH proposal/next 2/2] package/mkpasswd: remove obsolete package Stefan Becker
2018-06-01 13:30 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 propsal/next] replace host-mkpasswd Stefan Becker
2018-06-01 13:30 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 1/3] package/busybox: add host variant Stefan Becker
2018-06-01 13:30 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 2/3] build: replace host-mkpasswd with host-busybox Stefan Becker
2018-06-04 22:21 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-06-05 11:22 ` Carlos Santos
2018-06-05 16:15 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-05 16:35 ` Christopher McCrory
2018-06-05 16:50 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-07 21:29 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-06-08 11:40 ` Stefan Becker
2018-06-08 17:13 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-05 16:08 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-18 5:13 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-06-18 6:53 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-06-01 13:30 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 3/3] package/mkpasswd: remove obsolete package Stefan Becker
2018-05-29 6:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] host-mkpasswd: fix crash on Fedora 28 build host Stefan Becker
2018-05-03 21:26 ` Peter Korsgaard
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