Bug#381875: loop-AES key generation requires tiresome typing
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James Westby wrote:
> On (10/10/06 16:33), Rick Thomas wrote:
>> On Oct 10, 2006, at 3:39 PM, James Westby wrote:
>>
>>> I had a couple of idea while I was typing to generate keys in this
>>> fashion. Here they are in no particular order.
>>>
>>> 1) Make a game that involves typing,
>> Doesn't aptitude have a minesweeper game built in? Would that work?
>>
>
> Interesting,
>
> at least that is already implemented. I'm not sure how it would fit in
> to the d-i scheme.
it would not. Aptitude is not a part of the D-I flow and that is for a
really good reason.
> Also minesweeper seems a little low-intensity. Have you tried the
> generation? I created a 128bit key, and that was painful. There is a lot
> of entropy needed, and there probably isn't much coming from other
> sources or already accumulated. When you generate a GPG key on your
> workstation you have a helping hand.
There has been a discussion[0] about introducing a game in the graphical
installer and it has been suggested that the same could be done for the
newt interface.
There is already an udeb for sdljump[1], and probably we can find some
interesting enough console games for this task.
The *main* issue is, in fact, the linearity of the installation process,
but I guess starting the game on another VT and doing and exec from a
process starting from the installer would not be that hard (some
intelligence should be added to the game so that it does a chvt back to
the installer VT, after exit).
> As I said, I'm not sure the idea is workable, but I like it. Perhaps it
> could be implemented anyway, so you can drop to VT5 to play a game while
> waiting for the long portions of the installer to complete.
>
> If someone can come up with a high intensity game that doesn't require
> much entropy itself, then it might be feasible.
See [0].
[0]
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUI#head-9a881b78a4f0c4d9aed436c7d6109bd071d0f88e
[1]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/2006-February/000349.html
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EddyP
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