Re: md2 on current and 10.

2014-01-09 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 09.01.2014 02:59, schrieb Mikhail T.: On 08.01.2014 20:05, Peter Wemm wrote: The path of least resistance is to make a libmd2 port. It's the only way I can see you getting to use it on 10.0. *I* don't really care. *I* don't use md2 myself. I became aware of the problem by accident --

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2014-01-08 Thread Mikhail T
On 08.01.2014 02:54, Peter Wemm wrote: Could we, please, have MD2 resurrected before 10.0 is officially out? Preferably in both -lmd and -lcrypto, but certainly in the former. Thank you! Yours, The time to bring this up was before the freeze for 10.0, a good 6+ months ago. It is way too

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2014-01-08 Thread Peter Wemm
On 1/8/14, 7:00 AM, Mikhail T wrote: On 08.01.2014 02:54, Peter Wemm wrote: Could we, please, have MD2 resurrected before 10.0 is officially out? Preferably in both -lmd and -lcrypto, but certainly in the former. Thank you! Yours, The time to bring this up was before the freeze for 10.0, a

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2014-01-08 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:05:51PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: On 1/8/14, 7:00 AM, Mikhail T wrote: On 08.01.2014 02:54, Peter Wemm wrote: Could we, please, have MD2 resurrected before 10.0 is officially out? Preferably in both -lmd and -lcrypto, but certainly in the former. Thank you!

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2014-01-08 Thread Mikhail T.
On 08.01.2014 20:05, Peter Wemm wrote: The path of least resistance is to make a libmd2 port. It's the only way I can see you getting to use it on 10.0. *I* don't really care. *I* don't use md2 myself. I became aware of the problem by accident -- because one of my ports was affected (tcl-trf).

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2014-01-07 Thread Mikhail T.
On 27.12.2013 10:50, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: In other words, /if you like your digest algorithm, you can keep it/. Yours, Seconded. What should people use if some of their old data is using MD2 for verification? How can they now easily check that their data (from tape or whatever) still matches

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2014-01-07 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Mikhail T mi+apa...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: On 20.12.2013 13:38, olli hauer wrote: md2 was deprecated in 2009 by the openssl project http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=18381 CVE-2009-2409 As fas as I know some Linux based projects have removed md2 from

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2013-12-27 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 16:46:42 -0500, Mikhail T. wrote: Thinking more about the MD2, I'd say, FreeBSD should not have removed the algorithm. Although no longer deemed sufficiently secure, it is still in use and people using it on FreeBSD-8.x and 9.x today may wish to continue doing so after

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2013-12-25 Thread Mikhail T
On 20.12.2013 13:38, olli hauer wrote: md2 was deprecated in 2009 by the openssl project http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=18381 CVE-2009-2409 As fas as I know some Linux based projects have removed md2 from openssl-0.9.x in 2009. So, when are we removing sum(1) and cksum(1) --

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2013-12-20 Thread olli hauer
On 2013-12-20 01:44, Mikhail T. wrote: It would appear, neither md2.h nor openssl/md2.h are any longer available on FreeBSD current and 10.x This breaks the devel/tcl-trf port, which I maintain... Could someone, please, comment? Should I patch-up the port to disable the functionality?

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2013-12-20 Thread olli hauer
On 2013-12-20 19:04, Mikhail T. wrote: On 20.12.2013 12:52, olli hauer wrote: Hm the config script tests for md2 and sha1 ... What happens if md2 support is removed from the code? Yes, the md2 can be removed from the set of digests made available by the port -- that's not a problem. What I

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2013-12-20 Thread Mikhail T.
On 20.12.2013 12:52, olli hauer wrote: Hm the config script tests for md2 and sha1 ... What happens if md2 support is removed from the code? Yes, the md2 can be removed from the set of digests made available by the port -- that's not a problem. What I wanted to know, was why? Maybe, the header

Re: md2 on current and 10.

2013-12-20 Thread Mikhail T.
Thinking more about the MD2, I'd say, FreeBSD should not have removed the algorithm. Although no longer deemed sufficiently secure, it is still in use and people using it on FreeBSD-8.x and 9.x today may wish to continue doing so after upgrading to 10.x In the old Mechanism vs. Policy debate

md2 on current and 10.

2013-12-19 Thread Mikhail T.
It would appear, neither md2.h nor openssl/md2.h are any longer available on FreeBSD current and 10.x This breaks the devel/tcl-trf port, which I maintain... Could someone, please, comment? Should I patch-up the port to disable the functionality? Or?.. Thank you! -mi