OpenSSL followup SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS

2014-04-13 Thread Christian Kratzer
Hi, apparentyly openbsd has more or less silently fixed an older openssl issue that has been stuck in the openssl bug tracker: The openbsd patch: http://www.openbsd.org/errata55.html#004_openssl http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.5/common/004_openssl.patch.sig The original

Re: Retiring portsnap [was MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update]

2014-04-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com writes: My main point was that if you don't trust Subversion it makes no sense to say you trust portsnap. Portsnap pulls the ports tree from Subversion. Using Subversion! The portsnap system relies on the trust of both svnadmin and svn. Just as it does when

Re: Retiring portsnap [was MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update]

2014-04-13 Thread David Noel
Portsnap uses secured access for getting updates out of Subversion The portsnap open source project pulls data insecurely using the url svn://svn.freebsd.org. The server-side code of the FreeBSD portsnap system -- a closed source fork of the open source portsnap project -- happens to use

Re: Retiring portsnap [was MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update]

2014-04-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com writes: The server-side code of the FreeBSD portsnap system -- a closed source fork of the open source portsnap project -- happens to use secured access for pulling data from svn. So by your definition, every single Apache server on the planet runs a closed

Re: OpenSSL followup SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS

2014-04-13 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
On 13/04/2014 6:09 PM, Christian Kratzer wrote: Hi, apparentyly openbsd has more or less silently fixed an older openssl issue that has been stuck in the openssl bug tracker: The openbsd patch: http://www.openbsd.org/errata55.html#004_openssl

De Raadt + FBSD + OpenSSH + hole?

2014-04-13 Thread Todor Todorov
Hi everyone, I came across this : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mailing.openbsd.tech/xALfxxR3oKo You are welcome. Stuart Henderson wrote the draft, but he forgot that part, and Damien Miller and I realized it was needed. We sensed there might be some ambiguity... we'll take care

De Raadt + FBSD + OpenSSH + hole?

2014-04-13 Thread Mailing lists
Hi everyone, I came across this : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mailing.openbsd.tech/xALfxxR3oKo You are welcome. Stuart Henderson wrote the draft, but he forgot that part, and Damien Miller and I realized it was needed. We sensed there might be some ambiguity... we'll take care

De Raadt + FBSD + OpenSSH + hole?

2014-04-13 Thread Mailing lists
Hi everyone, I came across this : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mailing.openbsd.tech/xALfxxR3oKo You are welcome. Stuart Henderson wrote the draft, but he forgot that part, and Damien Miller and I realized it was needed. We sensed there might be some ambiguity... we'll take care

Re: Retiring portsnap [was MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update]

2014-04-13 Thread David Noel
So by your definition, every single Apache server on the planet runs a closed source fork of the open source Apache project because they do not use the exact same httpd.conf? Ah, you're right. That's from build.conf. My mistake. ___

Re: Retiring portsnap [was MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update]

2014-04-13 Thread David Noel
On 4/13/14, David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com wrote: So by your definition, every single Apache server on the planet runs a closed source fork of the open source Apache project because they do not use the exact same httpd.conf? Ah, you're right. That's from build.conf. My mistake. Though if

Re: Retiring portsnap [was MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update]

2014-04-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:33:53 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com writes: My main point was that if you don't trust Subversion it makes no sense to say you trust portsnap. Portsnap pulls the ports tree from Subversion. Using Subversion! The portsnap system

Re: Retiring portsnap [was MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update]

2014-04-13 Thread Xin Li
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 4/13/14, 10:04 PM, David Noel wrote: On 4/13/14, David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com wrote: So by your definition, every single Apache server on the planet runs a closed source fork of the open source Apache project because they do not use the

Re: Retiring portsnap [was MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update]

2014-04-13 Thread David Noel
Indeed it is not. David's solution - which seems to amount to removing portsnap and herding the cats at home to DTRT about using svn securely - relies on other cats being as smart and aware of the ramifications as he is - a highly questionable proposition especially for the numerous more