Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 18:04:36 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Dean M. Phillips" <dphill@inav.net> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eBones appears free of PRNG bug. Message-ID: <199602291604.SAA04943@grumble.grondar.za>
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"Dean M. Phillips" wrote: > I have done a quick check of the eBones that is shipped with FreeBSD 2.1R > and it appears to have already been fixed. In /usr/src/eBones/include/des.h > there is a "#define random_key des_random_key". The random_key function > appears to have vanished from the sources. Close. No Cigar. The routine required is des_new_random_key(). This was added to our libdes by me a while back, and is a part of the new libdes. Andrey (ache) added the MIT fixes to eBones, but it is not yet in STABLE. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key
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