From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] services: Add 'dropbear-service'. Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 14:32:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20160709183206.GE2010@jasmine> References: <20160704205616.11599-1-david@craven.ch> <20160704205616.11599-2-david@craven.ch> <20160707172517.GA5283@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33239) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLx37-0005Rs-Kk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:32:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLx33-0007Ic-JM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:32:21 -0400 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:49719) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLx32-0007IF-DK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:32:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 04:39:02PM +0200, David Craven wrote: > Yeah, I should have better said I don't know instead of talking out of my ass. That's harsh! I'm not an expert either, but I have begun trying to understand the assumptions that programs like SSH daemons make in their security model. In some cases, they assume that /dev/urandom has been properly seeded, which it typically is not after first boot. > All I can really do is trust that the people who write security > related code know what they are doing. Right, but like I said above, we must make an effort to know the assumptions they are making about the system. > Is there anything else holding this up? I'm not the best person to review new services — they are still a little over my head. At least, I should not be the sole reviewer. In the meantime, can you provide an OS declaration (config.scm) that makes use of dropbear-service so we can easily test it? I'd like for this to become standard practice when new services are submitted for review.