On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 20:47, Ben Laurie wrote: > Erring on the side of underestimation is wise here. I agree wholeheartedly, but underestimation means "calculating the correct value and then applying a safety factor" rather than "picking an arbitrary number and hoping it's low enough". It seems like later posts in this thread are starting to push in the mathematically-rigorous direction; I shall go reply to those as well. :) Jon -- Jonathan Anderson [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"