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Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 12:05a |
McIntyre: Bootstrapping arm64 in Debian Steve McIntyre provides
a progress report on the status of the arm64 port for Debian 8 "Jessie". " arm64 is officially a release architecture for Jessie, aka Debian version 8. That's taken a lot of manual porting and development effort over the last couple of years, and it's also taken a lot of CPU time - there are ~21,000 source packages in Debian Jessie! As is often the case for a brand new architecture like arm64 (or AArch64, to use ARM's own terminology), hardware can be really difficult to get hold of. In time this will cease to be an issue as hardware becomes more commoditised, but in Debian we really struggled to get hold of equipment for a very long time during the early part of the port." | | 5:01p |
Security advisories for Wednesday Debian has updated mantis (multiple vulnerabilities).
Mageia has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), libevent (denial of service), libpng (memory overwrite), nvidia (code execution), and webmin (malicious symlinks). | | 8:56p |
[$] Dark Mail publishes its secure-email architecture The Dark Mail Alliance has
published the first description of the architecture that enables its
secure-and-private alternative to the existing Internet email system.
Called the Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME), the system involves
a new email message format and new protocols for email exchange
and identity authentication. Nevertheless, DIME also makes an effort to be
backward-compatible with existing email deployments.
DIME includes several interesting ideas, but its main selling points
remain its security: it not only offers end-to-end encryption, but it
encrypts much of the message metadata other systems leave in
cleartext, too, and it offers resistance to attacks that target
servers between the sender and the recipient. |
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