From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 7 14:17:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F0D37B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D559E43E09 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:17:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=rip.psg.com.psg.com) by rip.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17RJPn-000KNc-00; Sun, 07 Jul 2002 14:17:55 -0700 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Klaus Steden Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: signal 8 (fp execption) in pgp 5 References: <20020707145020.D95654@cthulu.compt.com> Message-Id: Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 14:17:55 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> yesterday's -stable and ports tree, rebuilt twice. >> % pgpk -l randy >> Type Bits KeyID Created Expires Algorithm Use >> sec+ 1024 0xB1331439 1994-04-04 ---------- RSA Sign & Encrypt >> uid Randy Bush >> 1 matching key found >> Received signal 8. >> anyone else see this or have a clue? > Yup. I tried PGP6, too, and found the same problem. Did some digging around > in the source, and at least with PGP6, I discovered it's a bug in > pgpRndUnix.c. Specifically, when loading a timer for use in an entropy > function (I think), there's a call to clock_getres() - using the > CLOCK_REALTIME clock, filling in a structure that gets returned to the caller > as 0, which triggers the FPE. > > I tried using CLOCK_VIRTUAL, which stopped the FPE, but returned an error and > thus didn't generate any randomness. > > Hopefully I've got my terms right - I'm no crypto expert by any stretch, but > that's what I found to be a problem in PGP6. I suspect something similar may > be at play in PGP5. ok, interesting news. if i move the working binary from the old system to the new system, i get the sig with it. i.e. it is in the system, not the build of pgp5. so i am moving this conversation to stable. randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message