I also built 1.0.33 on raspbian (debian wheezy for raspberry pi) a while
back and keygen, backup and restore all worked.


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Johann Klähn <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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