I have been running tarsnap on an ARM device in the past though (Seagate
DockStar, ARMv5). I may have initially generated the key on another
machine.
On Jun 9, 2013 2:00 AM, "Colin Percival" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 06/08/13 14:20, Colin Percival wrote:
> > I just found a struct padding bug which affects ARM and possibly other
> similar
> > platforms (but not x86).  Is anyone running Tarsnap on such systems?
>
> I just realized that the answer here is guaranteed to be no, since any
> attempt
> to use tarsnap on such systems is guaranteed to fail immediately due to
> said
> padding bug.  (The precise error is "Unexpected EOF of key data" / "Key
> cache
> initialization failed".)
>
> Fortunately for me, this means I can fix this bug without worrying about
> running
> into backwards compatibility issues with key files generated on bug-present
> systems, since it's impossible to generate a key file on such a system. ;-)
>
> --
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
>
>

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