Re: OT: Re: FYA: http://heartbleed.com/

2014-04-09 Thread Ralph W Siegler
Stuart Henderson stu at spacehopper.org writes:

 
 On 2014-04-09, sven falempin sven.falempin at gmail.com wrote:
  i which this : https://polarssl.org was open and inside the base
 
 You can wish, but that is commercial+GPL code so OpenBSD can't use it in base.

What I would wish for is the OpenSSH project to expand to become the
OpenSSH/SSL project.  I'll take  a 'correct and slow' transport layer
security over 'fast and bypassing my OS's memory protection features'
transport layer security any day.   Such a scope would seem to be within the
purview of securing communications.



Re: bad link for bind's named server patch for Openbsd 5.0 -stable

2011-12-01 Thread Ralph W Siegler
Daniel Ouellet daniel at presscom.net writes:

 
 What you are looking at here:
 
 http://www.openbsd.org/errata50.html
 
 May not have replicated everywhere yet.
 
 Give it a day or two.
 
 Daniel

In reply to your first post, this is on CA site:

001: RELIABILITY FIX: November 30, 2011   All architectures
A vulnerability has been found in BIND's named server (CVE-2011-4313). An
unidentified network event caused BIND 9 resolvers to cache an invalid record,
subsequent queries for which could crash the resolvers with an assertion 
failure.
A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.



And in reply to this one:
Even on the Canadian server, the link is broken, so all replications will
 be broken too!

best,

Ralph   



bad link for bind's named server patch for Openbsd 5.0 -stable

2011-11-30 Thread Ralph W Siegler
So 5.0 has its very first patch to -stable, but the link
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.0/common/001_bind.patch   goes
nowhere.  Could someone please fix that?  Thanks!



Re: question about documentation

2011-09-15 Thread Ralph W Siegler
Kevin Chadwick ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk writes:

 
 On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:13:22 -0400
 
  priviledge is wrong in any version of English.
 
 And what's right about privilege exactly, actually I wouldn't care for
 the answer anyway, sounds came before words and there are many
 complexities, before very few decide to put a variant in an
 english dictionary. 
 

It is from the Latin privilegium, so the correct spelling before the g was
determined two thousand years ago.  The privi part meaning private, and
legium of law