Re: [Monotone-devel] bug: monotone serve w/ long passphrase

2005-09-25 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:57:29 -0700, Stefan Karpinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: sgk When I use a shorter passphrase, I now get past that problem, when I use a shorter...??? *looks at the code* oh, I see, the pass phrase is used directly as key material instead of

Re: [Monotone-devel] bug: monotone serve w/ long passphrase

2005-09-25 Thread Matt Johnston
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:24:01PM -0700, Stefan Karpinski wrote: Ouch. 32 is not a lot of key material for critical purposes, especially since each letter of a typical password contains far less than a byte of entropy. What was the motivation for switching from crypto++ to Botan? Of

[Monotone-devel] Re: silly question #2: why base64?

2005-09-25 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lapo Luchini wrote: I will definitely ask them about it. =) For tracking, it is ticket #1451: http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=1451 - -- L a p o L u c h i n i l a p o @ l a p o . i t w w w . l a p o . i t / -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

[Monotone-devel] Re: bug: monotone serve w/ long passphrase

2005-09-25 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Karpinski wrote: Monotone reports the following bug. Here's the short version: monotone: fatal: std::exception: Botan: ARC4 cannot accept a key of length 33 Passwords should really ALWAYS be passed through an hash before being used as

[Monotone-devel] New GUI tool in .contrib.mtsh

2005-09-25 Thread Timothy Brownawell
Hi, There's a new GUI tool (c++ using gtkmm) in the .contrib.mtsh branch, for dealing with working copies. It shows a list of files and can be used to change file states (add, drop, rename, revert), and to select/deselect changed files for commit. It also shows file diffs, file contents, and file