Bug#780828: ssl-cert: make-ssl-cert leaves window where new secret key may be world-readable

2015-03-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: ssl-cert Version: 1.0.35 Severity: normal make-ssl-cert appears to create the secret key material and then chmod it to restrict permissions. This leaves a race condition where a non-privileged user on the system can read the file before the permissions change takes effect, thereby steali

Bug#732450: please sign new apache releases only with strong keys -- trimming the KEYS file

2013-12-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 12/26/2013 06:18 PM, Nick Kew wrote: > You're ahead of us. Individual Apache folks like Jim have taken > responsibility and moved to 4096-bit keys, but we haven't as a > community had the discussion that might lead to pruning KEYS. > My inclination is to say NO to requiring anyone to remove old

Bug#732450: please sign new apache releases only with strong keys -- trimming the KEYS file

2013-12-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi apache folks-- In http://bugs.debian.org/732450, debian is preparing to cryptographically verify OpenPGP signatures on apache upstream tarballs. As part of the dicsussion, it's become clear that some of the keys in https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/KEYS are weak by any modern consideration of

Bug#732450: debian/watch: help uscan verify PGP signature automatically

2013-12-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 12/23/2013 06:48 AM, Arno Töll wrote: > thanks for that suggestion. I added your patch for the upcoming package > upload. great, thank you! > I did, however, add the full keyring of Apache developers that > /could/ sign a release as listed in http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/KEYS While we're

Bug#732450: debian/watch: help uscan verify PGP signature automatically

2013-12-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: src:apache2 Version: 2.4.6-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch uscan from devscripts 2.13.3 has the ability to check OpenPGP signatures on new upstream releases. It looks like Jim Jagielski is signing apache2 releases (at least those from 2.2 onward, which are all that we care about) with his

Bug#699327: libaprutil1-dev: please ship find_apu.m4

2013-01-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: libaprutil1-dev Version: 1.4.1-3 Severity: normal debian/patches/ship_find_apu.m4.patch seems to think that it is going to cause find_apu.m4 to be shipped with one of the binary packages, but it doesn't seem to have that effect. find_apu.m4 ends up in the top level of debian/tmp, but nev

Bug#598732: /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf should use 2048 bits

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/01/2010 11:58 AM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > 1024 bits are more than enough to satisfy the security expectations of > an auto-generated "snake-oil" key for the life time of squeeze. The key is not snake-oil. The X.509 *certificate* is snake-oil, what with being self-signed and all. A perfect

Bug#598732: /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf should use 2048 bits

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: ssl-cert Version: 1.0.26 Severity: normal this is the shipped version of /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf, which is used for make-ssl-cert to generate the default key and "snakeoil" certificate. - # # SSLeay example configuration file. # RANDFILE= /dev/uran

Bug#494768: confirming that this is still a problem for apache serving from a CIFS mounts on lenny

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/25/2009 05:51 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Well, in this case, nothing went wrong (since the whole file was > transferred across the socket). When i get a chance, i'll try to modify > my code to do this over a network socket instead of a UNIX socket, and > listen to

Bug#494768: confirming that this is still a problem for apache serving from a CIFS mounts on lenny

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/25/2009 05:17 PM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > I don't deny this and it is certainly not optimal, but it works as > documented. I have poked upstream about it but I don't expect that it > changes in the near future. OK, fair enough. Is there anything in an upstream bugtracker? Should we link th

Bug#494768: confirming that this is still a problem for apache serving from a CIFS mounts on lenny

2009-03-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I can verify that apache2-mpm-worker is indeed having this problem when serving static files from a CIFS mount on a modern lenny system. Each HTTP fetch is capable of pulling some smallish amount of bytes (~10K for some connections i've tried) before the TCP connection abruptly terminates. On suc