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1) Message boards : Cafe : THREAD RIPPER Sighted in streets of Mumbai, Deli Mexico ... where next!!! (Message 2249) Posted 22 May 2017 by QuantumHelos Post: from a secret location ... like a ghost in the machine !.. innocence only lasts so long ... the thread ripper came like some sort of dinosaur ! SHREDDING my stats > the Proof one may find in detective work http://bit.ly/BoincStudies http://bit.ly/HPC-Dev *signed : THE LAST VICTOR
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Usable Sources of Entropy/Chaos/Random in research need expanding - here are the ideas (Message 2206) Posted 4 May 2017 by QuantumHelos Post: sorry a couple of posts because i got excited about the project and it's difficulties .... i seriously want this project to work & there should be more input... thanks and all
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Usable Sources of Entropy/Chaos/Random in research need expanding - here are the ideas (Message 2198) Posted 3 May 2017 by QuantumHelos Post: RNG and the random web - Haveged / RNGTools - Chaos - Crypto - Science of Hardware & Computer Driver **** preface what is the difference between chaos and entropy ? Chaos is an issue of confusion .... of logic that spirals unpredictably out of control .... sometimes exciting, sometimes bad ... confusing, exciting .... lacking perfect definition. Order/logic go hand in hand in the digital age.... Entropy is the disordered but ordered by average breakdown of the system onto a form that statistically meets the requirement that : (all sums eventually average to zero as much as possible) ergo statistically : Chaos and Order/Logic both exist --------------------------------------------------- entropy ... * Entropy or preferably random plays a very important role in science and the internet... Security and Research both need this. But most commonly they lack drivers .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hardware_random_number_generators Phone & PC Random/Seed/Entropy is a problem so making an app like ubuntu's entropy seeding app, With high quality random would be a life saver to the phone user, In addition the RND Crng Trng or NRNG could use AES to magnify the pool ... or blow-fish etcetera ! For non rooted phones a device a RNG device installed; if RNG device impossible to install then other noise source .. For the Phone/PC/Mac/Server OS. Driver Function and utilisation (Copyright Rupert S) Multiple sources of entropy and the hashing of that combined and injected though AES hardware is not included.. in applications on Phone, Windows, Mac etcetera.. the use of a Hardware Encrypted cache saved to drive .. for example : 1mb of RNG data that has not been used to add to the boot source & durring low ebbs in Entropy data, To be refreshed depending on the recording media.. & additional pre AES/Blowfish/Encryption mode; processed data in ram. (4mb is larg enough to use but small enough for 256mb ram devices.) Fortunately this is 4 weeks development at most. So kernel inclusion of the driver base is a must With the main tool being protected space; With distribution to user of AES; blowfish etcetera, hashed and expanded data NX DEP protected data contained securely, you can seed the data and remix that with new data.. mixed data is the strongest and surely the least predicable of the lot since despite using algorithms the output is clearly unpredictable. Entropy SIM and SSD cards are an option & can contain an actual memory array flash combo to be super fast; but economical. (Copyright Rupert S) ***** For a windows/phone RNG device .... i have been thinking ! You could modify the driver and make your own to take data from the RNG devices on the comports & obviousy PCI etcetera.. Commonly on the Linux system entropy/RNG/Random drivers are in the kernel but are most commonly not configured properly; These are the problems we need to fix & fix well.. Entropy SIM and SSD cards are an option & can contain an actual memory array flash combo to be super fast; but economical. Haveged exists on linux but not on mac or windows.... (The characteristics of Haveged are not necessarily guaranteed to have all the chaos that we need.) However haveged is one option that combined with AES,Blowfish Random Expansion can help with Entropy issues ! Haveged is not the only solution and furthermore TRNG/CRNG need optimization .... To Increase security and to provide true crypto/Rand function. Haveged provides a viable additional source of entropy .... Preferably not as the only source, However haveged is a product that produces results, We surely need in Random Bit starved computers and mobile markets .... Yes the CPU/GPU configured so can obviously create logical and not so perfectly entropic results, However we have to ask ourselves do we need random filled with a viable source available to all ? The answer is obvious yes. Haveged produces a data far superior to just the user input... Furthermore the tasks running on the computer and or within the system improve the output... As the necessity to use haveged increases; Most likely the user will be running more tasks that need to use it ! and hence there will be better results and more of them. yes a true TRNG is a state of peace in the true security advocates heart but there is always room for an improved haveged.. both on windows, on mac and other operating systems. (copyright : Rupert S) http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/index.html https://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers viorng/: Virtio RNG driver Seems a simple and elegant solution that would allow for the use of RNG data and would allow other devices of the same type to work well ! This would be a service to all and allow research sharing, The driver is open source. https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/blob/master/viorng/viorng/viorng.inf https://fatminmin.com/blog/install-win10-with-virtio.html https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_VirtIO_Drivers https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Virtualization_Deployment_and_Administration_Guide/sect-Guest_virtual_machine_device_configuration-Random_number_generator_device.html Other device drivers could also be made not just for virtual machines... RS Other tools and functions to call to make the C/N/T/RNG ... Functional - please read all ! well thought out analysis of the entropy system care of getnetrandom & Wisconsin university http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~swift/papers/oakland14-rng.pdf online entropy fetch with Client for windows and linux servers and soon android https://www.getnetrandom.com/#howitworks https://www.getnetrandom.com/quickstart-guide.pdf http://whitewoodsecurity.com/products/entropy-engine/ RNG SDK links https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v12.0.0%2Fgroup__nrf__drv__rng.html https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF5_SDK/nRF51_SDK_v8.x.x/doc/8.0.0/s110/html/a00790.html#details * windows driver implimentation* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22150896/is-it-possible-to-add-entropy-from-a-hardware-rng-to-the-windows-cryptoapi https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30688 Cryptographic Provider Development Kit https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers/bringup/efi-rng-service-binding-protocol https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379942(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa380252(v=vs.85).aspx#key_generation_and_exchange_functions https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff553181(v=vs.85).aspx SSL information https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_Numbers https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_fork-safety T/C/RNG Providers http://whitewoodsecurity.com/products/entropy-engine/ http://moonbaseotago.com/onerng/ http://ubld.it http://qrng.anu.edu.au/index.php (c)RS *** Q & A (Copyright Rupert S etc) "how can you ensure that a particular kernel driver runs before other system processes? for example doesn't ASLR run way before anything else?" the boot kernel drivers boot before the os with the network driver (for secure network driver loading for server sessions) keep a cache of rnd data and bingo secured boot with high chaos maintenance "to make USB tpm/dongle devices and boot is secure and the os is safe from intrusion (low priced preferably)" the driver has to have a verified certificate "everything makes sense here the details of boot kernel driver vs regular kernel module." Microsoft and Redhat kernel drivers need certification on servers and generic OS implementation go directly to them and register your certificate. Get involved in the RNG Tools project and the kernel development for Linux,windows & mac, Also android kernel is based on the Linux kernel but implemented though open source development and deviation from Linux source. "What's your feeling on RNG Tools in general, and from the point of view of it being an optional component people have to consciously seek out and add in vs. being a "built in" part of a standard distribution?" Personally i believe in RNGTools and the usage is a must! Multiple sources of entropy and the hashing of that combined and injected though AES hardware is not included.. Fortunately this is 4 weeks development at most. So kernel inclusion of the driver base is a must (with the main tool being n protected space with distribution to user of AES; blowfish etcetera, hashed and expanded data (c)RS ****
4) Message boards : Number crunching : The Radeon can officially host NVIDIA CUDA code (Message 2192) Posted 2 May 2017 by QuantumHelos Post: the article took some deep learning... itself ôo, anyway very interesting.... hip c++ will we think be simpler than open CL then as a higher level code port...
5) Message boards : Number crunching : extreme long wu's (Message 2190) Posted 2 May 2017 by QuantumHelos Post: If there is anything you'd like me to test or try, tell me what to do and I'll do it. I want it solved, and am willing to try things for you. Unfortunately, I can't as I can't send source code. The problem is the code compiles correctly without BOINC libraries, but with them not. What makes situation strange, BOINC code in sources didn't change for almost a year, so it is well tested by us (all of us). We make checks nearly every day trying to find wrong part, but this is going part by part in above 20k of source code lines. With the current app - I can't identify problem as it exists only on some computers in very rare conditions and doesn't replicate on my development computers (two of them). i have a feeling that defined library calls or something could be the cause of your problem.... #define Jippers=Nod24 #call Blender.Jazz ill defined and so redefined .... in code without clear. ***** AMD Platform Optimization - please read for all developers https://community.amd.com/thread/213045 http://32ipi028l5q82yhj72224m8j.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/GDC2017-Optimizing-For-AMD-Ryzen.pdf http://www.agner.org/optimize/ http://www.agner.org for example : Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes f16c syscall nx lm avx sse4a osvw xop wdt fma4 topx page1gb rdtscp bmi1
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Do we do trickle up? (Message 2187) Posted 2 May 2017 by QuantumHelos Post: sometimes the data update percentage freezes .... particularly when the task has been suspended to do other work .... running a cpu test in boinc can sometimes reset this problem..... yours Kindly Me
7) Message boards : Number crunching : length of BHspin v2 0.01 now 6 times? (Message 2182) Posted 30 Apr 2017 by QuantumHelos Post: they are big ain't they , and small file size .... and 7mb of ram used to execute it ! CPU Platform Optimization - please read for all developers https://community.amd.com/thread/213045 http://32ipi028l5q82yhj72224m8j.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/GDC2017-Optimizing-For-AMD-Ryzen.pdf http://www.agner.org/optimize/ http://www.agner.org
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Problem with BHspin2 v0.02 (Message 2180) Posted 30 Apr 2017 by QuantumHelos Post: ram usage for the project is in the 7mb range .... could be something to do with memory buffer not being big enough ..... read > boinc http://esa-space.blogspot.com 30/04/2017 17:47:35 \| \| OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (driver version 2348.3, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (2348.3), 3072MB, 3072MB available, 4178 GFLOPS peak) 30/04/2017 17:47:35 \| \| Processor: 8 AuthenticAMD AMD FX-8320E Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0] 30/04/2017 17:47:35 \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes f16c syscall nx lm avx sse4a osvw xop wdt fma4 topx page1gb rdtscp bmi1 feature set could be optimized and buffer increased to the 32mb range .... or 64mb without this being an issue .... + feature optimized in the compiler > AMD Platform Optimization - please read for all developers https://community.amd.com/thread/213045 http://32ipi028l5q82yhj72224m8j.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/GDC2017-Optimizing-For-AMD-Ryzen.pdf http://www.agner.org/optimize/ http://www.agner.org