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[PATCH RFC v1] random: implement getrandom() in vDSO – Jason A. Donenfeld From: “Jason A. Donenfeld” To: [email protected] Cc: “Jason A. Donenfeld” , [email protected], [email protected], Nadia Heninger , Thomas Ristenpart , Theodore Ts’o , Vincenzo Frascino , Adhemerval Zanella Netto … Read more
Overview In this post I will use a simple HTTP benchmark to do a head-to-head performance comparison between the Linux kernel’s network stack, and a kernel-bypass stack powered by DPDK. I will run my tests using Seastar, a C++ framework … Read more
Most Linux-based operating systems are fairly large — usually well over a full gigabyte in size for the base install image. Tiny Core Linux, which clocks in at a svelte 22 MB download, just released version 13. It’s fast. And another … Read more
Ready to have your mind blown… just a little? Check this out: “What am I looking at,” you ask? On the left is Scratch — a visual programming tool, primarily geared towards kids, to help with learning concepts of coding. … Read more
Sometimes you need info about hardware, and you probably lost your invoice, spec list or a password to a store website. Maybe you did an upgrade and this info isn’t accurate anymore. It’s an easy case for home users, but … Read more
Rootkits are dangerous pieces of malware. Once in place, they are usually really hard to detect. Their code is typically more challenging to write than other malware, so developers resort to code reuse from open source projects. As rootkits are … Read more
blog · git · desktop · images · contact & privacy · gopher 2022-06-11 While investigating the aftermath of a potential security breach, I came across a somewhat “odd” process looking like this: root@ubuntu2004:~# ls -al /proc/1026/exe lrwxrwxrwx 1 root … Read more
Introduction The story starts back in 2020 with Corellium releasing Project Sandcastle. I was amazed at the sheer thought of running Linux on an iDevice, especially considering their state-of-the-art SoCs, which keep consistently outperforming the competitors’ offerings (or.. plainly trashing … Read more