fear of RIPEMD-160; it's certainly strong, but it's also
>slower than necessary and has more unproven techniques, and I don't
>quite see the reason to put up with that.
Using the reference you provided, I got around three Megabytes/ CPU
second on a P133 with RIPEMD-160 (using pgcc -
, but
the algorithm was published in 1994. Dobbertin published his first
papers in early 1995.
SHA-1 seems to have been introduced because of an attack on SHA. What
attack this was has been kept secret :-(
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yptanalyzed MD4 and MD5) is one of the authors of RIPEMD-160, and that
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source and target language as any of the EU languages, get definitions
of terms, and chose the subject areas you're interested in.
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eeds around 2^(n/2) operations
if he uses a so-called birthday attack, so the 128 bit of md5 only provide
64 bits of "real" security. A 160 bit hash does sound much better (although
I'd still sleep more soundly with 256 bit, but there's no good 256 bit
hash available at t
m that its design parameters are secret.
Source code for RIPEMD-160 is avialiable, and the algorithm is in the
public domain. For more information, you can check out
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html
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uarantee in the NFS protocol that this is indeed being done (and I
don't know wether the current Linux nfsd does indeed follow that
strategy). This will also not survive a server crash, and there is
no way to enquire wether the server does support xid caching.
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ay to get around that
problem, I'd be interesting in learning more about it (and, possibly,
dreaming up cases in which it might fail :-)
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John Goerzen wrote:
>Why are we using dotfile locking only? There are much better
>mechanisms (flock, etc.) that should be used instead. I can see no
>place where dotfile locking would work and flock-style locking would fail...
We don't have a lock daemon for NFS.
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"%s",buffer);
return 0;
}
If you feed it a line that's too long, the access violation will
happen deep within the C library. Without debugging symbols, it's
hard to know wether this is a bug in the C library (and there
could be quite a few :-) or your program.
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Mark Eichin wrote:
>xcompat is dead (ie. it dates from when those were valid... since no
>current packages need those virtual names, xcompat isn't needed either.)
I need xcompat to run Maple VR3.
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Of course, I can re-upload at_3.1.7.orig.tar.gz (or copy it from bo),
but it's already in stable.
Is this a bug in the installation script?
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ient host.
This is not something I'd like to see as Debian default.
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# Some systems with -lutil have (and need) -lkvm as well, some do not.
# On Solaris, -lkvm requires nlist from -lelf, so check that first
# to get the right answer into the cache.
I'll file a bug against autoconf when I have investigated
this a bit more.
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r priority field
>changed to "important".
In principle, you're right :-)
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hem. And the changed required would not be
>#ifdef debian, but #ifdef SYSV. Much better IMO.
The preferred method should be #ifdef HAVE_FUNCTIONNAME (via
autoconf). #ifdef sysname is evil.
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Tim Cutts wrote:
>Well, for one thing exim (and smail) are a hell of a lot easier to
>configure than sendmail.
I've found that the m4 configuration of sendmail is fairly easy for
an Internet-only machine (I don't run UUCP), but YMMV, of course.
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Microsoft products don't expect that anybody cares for bugs).
What can be done? I'd suggest putting the support addresses
(mailing list, web pages) prominently into the installation routines,
and possibly even into the MOTD.
What else?
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>I didn't meant to imply that libc5 packages will be
>rejected.
Ok, thanks for clearing that up :-)
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Guy Maor wrote:
>> Must all new programs goint into unstable be linked with libc6?
>
>Since Debian 2.0 is meant to be a libc6 system, the answer is yes.
If this is indeed a requirement, at is now orphaned.
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ith a non-GPL license (pretty much BSD-like).
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opment at the moment (large patch
files, lots of code reorganization) seems to indicate so.
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Guy Maor wrote:
[gcc 2.7.2]
>I don't think it does any optimization at all for pentium.
Correct. Of course, there's the experimental pgcc (http://www.goof.com/,
if anybody wants to look).
I'd like to pack this up and stuff it into experimental, if I had a
little more time
.
One possible solution would be to give each user a personal
/var/tmp/, mode 700, and have as many functions (mktemp, ...)
return a string to there.
Loss: a few inodes.
Gain: fewer security holes.
Comments?
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>Bo is currently a "release candidate". It will become an official release
>as soon as the testing group okays it.
What about Bug #10165? Is not being able to boot after an upgrade
critical?
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er supposed to look?
BTW, I'm really sorry for disregarding the installation instructions for
hamm. The fact that they are nowhere to be found is no excuse, I agree.
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tion README's?
That is very probably not enough. People don't read README files unless
these are rammed down their throats.
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from Debian 1.1
to 1.3 this way. They will hate you forever for it.
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Rob Browning wrote:
>Should the default Debian home dir permissions be changed, should
>ssh be modified, or what?
IMHO, group-writable home directories are a Bad Thing (TM), anyway.
They break just about any reasonable multi-user setup by default.
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David Frey wrote:
>Just a silly question: Which flavour of \TeX is Debian shipping?
>How far is it away from e.g. teTeX?
IMHO, teTeX is a very good package. I think it should be used as the
base for Debian TeX, if that's possible at all.
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ssing).
The best way would probably be to go through the LaTeX Companion and
install everything that's mentioned in there.
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Package: mfbasfnt
Version: 1.0-3
The metafont base fonts are missing important fonts, for example
cmbx14.
Here's an example:
$ xdvi example.dvi
kpathsea: Running MakeTeXPK cmbx14 300 300 1+0/300 deskjet
Running MakeTeXPK cmbx14 300 300 1+0/300 deskjet
Running mf \mode:=deskjet; mag:=1+0/300; scr
David Engel wrote:
>Thomas Koenig writes:
>> David Engel wrote:
>> >> $ gcc -bi486-linuxaout hello.c
>> >> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
>>
>> >This isn't a bug.
>>
>> To ch
>ELF front-end, you have to explicitly specify the version also as in:
>
> gcc -bi486-linuxaout -V2.6.3
Any reason why this should not go into the package description?
Other people than me are going to stumble across that particular
problem.
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$echo 'unnamed.eps:' 'original size' '2790,' 'current size' "$shar_count!"
fi
fi
# = unnamed.fig ==
if test -f 'unnamed.fig' && test "$first_param" != -c; then
$echo 'x -' SKIPPING 'unnamed.fig' '(file already exists)'
else
$echo 'x -' extracting 'unnamed.fig' '(text)'
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'unnamed.fig' &&
#FIG 3.1
Landscape
Center
Inches
1200 2
2 4 0 1 -1 7 0 0 -1 0.000 0 0 7 0 0 5
X2400 2325 2400 1275 1050 1275 1050 2325 2400 2325
SHAR_EOF
$shar_touch -am 0827104396 'unnamed.fig' &&
chmod 0640 'unnamed.fig' ||
$echo 'restore of' 'unnamed.fig' 'failed'
if ( md5sum --help 2>&1 | grep 'sage: md5sum \[' ) >/dev/null 2>&1 \
&& ( md5sum --version 2>&1 | grep -v 'textutils 1.12' ) >/dev/null; then
md5sum -c << SHAR_EOF >/dev/null 2>&1 \
|| $echo 'unnamed.fig:' 'MD5 check failed'
185a0d8b3fb93b6b8b8201ac341071cc unnamed.fig
SHAR_EOF
else
shar_count="`LC_ALL= LC_CTYPE= LANG= wc -c < 'unnamed.fig'`"
test 130 -eq "$shar_count" ||
$echo 'unnamed.fig:' 'original size' '130,' 'current size' "$shar_count!"
fi
fi
rm -fr _sh19142
exit 0
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rts here:
/usr/local/include
/usr/i486-linuxaout/include
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linuxaout/2.6.3/include
/usr/include
End of search list.
cc1 /tmp/cca00347.i -quiet -dumpbase hello.c -version -o /tmp/cca00347.s
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
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, X_OK) = -1 ERRNO_2 (No such
file or directory)
access("/usr/i386-unknown-cygwin32/bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/2.7.2/cc1", X_OK)
= -1 ERRNO_2 (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/i386-unknown-cygwin32/bin/cc1", X_OK) = -1 ERRNO_2 (No such file
or directory)
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I wrote:
> xauth add :0 . `dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 bs=16 | md5sum`
This is an incomplete fix to the problem; the serverargs also need
to be set:
serverargs="-auth $HOME/.Xauthority"
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a correctly formatted string - possibly od can be persuaded with
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Package: bison
Version: A2.6-12
The following input file (which contains errors, I know :-) causes
bison to dump core.
I have no idea wether this is a libc or a bison error. Gdb tells me
the following:
$ gdb /usr/bin/bison core
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
Package: xonix
Version: 1.4-3
By default, xonix can't write to its highscore file.
As a remedy, I'd suggest
chgrp games /usr/games/xonix
chmod 2755 /usr/games/xonix
chgrp games /var/lib/games/xonix
chmod 775 /var/lib/games/xonix
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trying to overwrite `/usr/lib', which is also in package libgdbm1
Oh well... I'll wait and see what other programs will have mysterious
problems now. Seems like I hit ^C fast enough to avoid total lossage.
The problem still needs to be fixed, though.
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27;ll eagerly await what fsck has to say about this.
I'll have another go at developing for Debian when that particular
bug has been fixed.
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e, unless there are strong
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4
4202 open("/app/maple/lib/maple.lib", O_RDONLY) = 5
4202 --- SIGTERM (Terminated) ---
4201 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
4201 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
4201 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
4201 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
4201 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
4201 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
4201 _exit(0) = ?
> Thomas> (Dirk, it might be a good idea to check wether you have something
> Thomas> like this in your environment; another suspect is the XKEYSYMDB
> Thomas> environment variable).
>
>I have no such environment variable set as a design principle of Debian is to
>do the Right Thing (TM) without these variables
Could you run the same strace and compare it against mine?
BTW, here are my MD5 checksums of the two libraries in question:
$ md5sum /usr/X11R5/lib/libX11.so.3.1.0 /usr/X11R5/lib/libXt.so.3.1.0
825a30b219c625a129c8c5f8cb31c6dc /usr/X11R5/lib/libX11.so.3.1.0
af7caf6f1e84f06f4ec1c53f6ce1147e /usr/X11R5/lib/libXt.so.3.1.0
If yours differ, this may be a clue.
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Date outputs from 'at' are mandated as
date +"%a %b %e %T %Y"
(i.e. "Wed Aug 14 20:05:13 1996") by the Posix.2a draft I have, which is
the date used in the upcoming release 3.0 of at(1).
Yep, that's pretty broken. If anybody has later, better news, pl
e
this in your environment; another suspect is the XKEYSYMDB
environment variable).
Since I have no idea of how to set an environment variable from
a Debian package (and from which package to do it) I leave it
to more capable hands to reassign this bug to whatever package
is right (xbase, xcompat
e that path comes from. The
vendor is not to blame.
So, it appears to be a problem with the xcompat package, not with
motifnls. (And yes, Maple is an a.out binary). Somebody please
reassign this bug report, please :-)
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Package: smail
Version: 3.1.29.1
When removing smail from the system (in favour of sendmail) with
dselect, /etc/cron.daily/smail is not removed. This results in
unnecessary mail being sent to root.
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these things under /usr/X386,
as verified with strace.
Solution: cd /usr ; ln -s X11R6 X386
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