Re: Machine-readable form for debian security advisories

2004-08-12 Thread Joshua Goodall
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:38 pm, Lupe Christoph wrote: On Thursday, 2004-08-12 at 14:26:44 +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: Therefore I see a need for a machine readable DSA format. I know there's a defined format to the current header, but I'd like to expand on that. It will look something

Re: Machine-readable form for debian security advisories

2004-08-12 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Thursday, 2004-08-12 at 17:25:32 +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: As I understand it, VuXML has a slightly different semantic. It expresses that specified binary package versions will have a certain vulnerability and implies they should be deinstalled or upgraded to some version for which

Re: telnet: Buffer Overrun by unchecked environment variables

2004-08-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Josh Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040810 10:08]: Although this should never actually happen, if you set your environment variable HOME to an extremely large string a buffer overflow will occur upon connecting to a server using telnet. I was not able to overwrite 'eip' but I have included a

Re: Bug#264846: telnet: Buffer Overrun by unchecked environment variables

2004-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:04:52AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: I may be utterly confused, but that patch does look quite strange. It may make it near to impossible to introduce code, but only reduces the problem: strncpy will not '\0'-terminate the string, so that the following

[OT] Is calculating an MD5 hash of a Rjindael encrypted block and it's key insecure?

2004-08-12 Thread Marcel Weber
Hi Although this question is a bit off topic, I think that this list is the best audience to answer it. For the company I'm working I had to write an apache module, that the users do not have to enter their username password everytime they log onto the intranet web server. My solution is a

Re: [OT] Is calculating an MD5 hash of a Rjindael encrypted block and it's key insecure?

2004-08-12 Thread Richard Atterer
Hello, here's my ¤0.02... note that I would not call myself a crypto expert either. On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:54:14AM +0200, Marcel Weber wrote: My solution is a mod_perl module, that catches every request before the authentication module and supplies the credentials automatically. This

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Re: [OT] Is calculating an MD5 hash of a Rjindael encrypted block and it's key insecure?

2004-08-12 Thread Marcel Weber
Hi Richard Atterer wrote: My solution is a mod_perl module, that catches every request before the authentication module and supplies the credentials automatically. This works with ANY apache authentication modules using basic authentication. This strikes me as a weird solution. What's wrong with

Re: Machine-readable form for debian security advisories

2004-08-12 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
[Lupe dropped from cc: as (I think was) requested] On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:25:32PM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: [snip good stuff] These nits aside, I can probably use VuXML for my project, even if it means extending the DTD. Thanks for pointing it out! Hi Joshua! I'm only too happy to

Re: [OT] Is calculating an MD5 hash of a Rjindael encrypted block and it's key insecure?

2004-08-12 Thread Marcel Weber
Hi all Well, I figured out the problem, why my module hanged... It was a programming fault... Well in that case, I do not need any md5 checksum at all... Problem solved Thanks again for all precious input I got Cheers Marcel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: [OT] Is calculating an MD5 hash of a Rjindael encrypted block and it's key insecure?

2004-08-12 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:56:53PM +0200, Marcel Weber wrote: Richard Atterer wrote: This strikes me as a weird solution. What's wrong with setting the cookie lifetime higher, so that people only need to log in e.g. once a day? Hmm, presumably the web application is closed-source or

Re: [OT] Is calculating an MD5 hash of a Rjindael encrypted block and it's key insecure?

2004-08-12 Thread Marcel Weber
Richard Atterer wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:56:53PM +0200, Marcel Weber wrote: No, it doesn't mean that. Current browsers will cache the password, AFAIK until the end of the session by default, and forever if you enable the option Remember this password or similar. I know. - No more

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: If you wanted to make a second version of GPG and place it in non-free, that would likely be an acceptable option. You don't need to make a second version of GPG; the IDEA module can be loaded dynamically. -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 at 03:35:29AM -0400, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: If you wanted to make a second version of GPG and place it in non-free, that would likely be an acceptable option. You don't need to make a second version of GPG; the IDEA module can be

NTP servers

2004-08-12 Thread Adam Morley
Hi, I'm interested in setting up an NTP server on a debian machine with security in mind, but from my lookings at the official NTP server (www.ntp.org), the daemon which serves time also updates the local clock, and hence has to have permission to do so. I'm looking for a software package that

Re: NTP servers

2004-08-12 Thread Thomas Sjögren
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:40:14AM -0700, Adam Morley wrote: Hi, I'm interested in setting up an NTP server on a debian machine with security in mind, but from my lookings at the official NTP server (www.ntp.org), the daemon which serves time also updates the local clock, and hence has to

Re: NTP servers

2004-08-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:40:14AM -0700, Adam Morley wrote: I'm interested in setting up an NTP server on a debian machine with security in mind, but from my lookings at the official NTP server (www.ntp.org), the daemon which serves time also updates the local clock, and hence has to have

Re: NTP servers

2004-08-12 Thread Philipp Schulte
Adam Morley wrote: I'm looking for a software package that provides: - An NTP server (to serve time to NTP clients) that I can run as a non-priveleged user, chrooted. Not sure if it fits your needs but the OpenBSD-guys recently released OpenNTPD: http://www.openntpd.org/ -- To

Re: NTP servers

2004-08-12 Thread Adam ENDRODI
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:40:14AM -0700, Adam Morley wrote: I'm looking for a software package that provides: - An NTP server (to serve time to NTP clients) that I can run as a non-priveleged user, chrooted. - An NTP client, that will keep the clock of the computer doing the NTP

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Phillip Hofmeister: You don't need to make a second version of GPG; the IDEA module can be loaded dynamically. Then the module would need to be in non-free. non-us, I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Florian Weimer wrote: You don't need to make a second version of GPG; the IDEA module can be loaded dynamically. Then the module would need to be in non-free. non-us, I think. non-free in non-us, actually. And maybe not even there, since the IDEA patent is a problem

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ian Beckwith: On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:17:38PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Both PGP 5 and 6.5 have security issues which haven't been fixed upstream (because there isn't any upstream anymore). There are some pirated versions of 6.5.8 that incorporate fixes, but Debian certainly

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Florian Weimer wrote: You don't need to make a second version of GPG; the IDEA module can be loaded dynamically. Then the module would need to be in non-free. non-us, I think. non-free in non-us, actually. Why non-free? The code is

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Florian Weimer wrote: * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Florian Weimer wrote: You don't need to make a second version of GPG; the IDEA module can be loaded dynamically. Then the module would need to be in non-free. non-us, I think. non-free

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: Why non-free? The code is available under a DFSG-free copyright license. The one I have here isn't, but if you have one that is entirely DFSG-free, that's much better. An older version is available from:

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: Why non-free? The code is available under a DFSG-free copyright license. The one I have here isn't, but if you have one that is entirely DFSG-free, that's much better. An older version is available from:

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I once worked on an OpenPGP implementation vulnerability matrix, but this topic isn't very interesting anymore. For me at least, there's just GnuPG. Just out of curiosity, are there now, or have there been in the past, any _other_ implementations

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Rick Moen: Quoting Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I once worked on an OpenPGP implementation vulnerability matrix, but this topic isn't very interesting anymore. For me at least, there's just GnuPG. Just out of curiosity, are there now, or have there been in the past, any _other_

Re: Machine-readable form for debian security advisories

2004-08-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joshua Goodall: I have several hundred debian instances to care for, and they are monitored via Nagios. I would like to institute a regular test that checks each box against a list of security advisories, without running apt-get update several times a day on 300 boxes. Therefore I see a

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