Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 3211-1] iceweasel security update

2015-05-17 Thread Riley Baird
I'm not from the iceweasel team, but I can assure you that most, if not all, of the bugs in Firefox have been accidental. If you are concerned about privacy (which is a good thing!), then I recommend that you use the Tor browser. If you don't trust that because it's based on Firefox, then try to

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using => broken?

2015-02-05 Thread Riley Baird
On 06/02/15 02:58, Korte wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 08:35:08 -0500 > Michael Stone wrote: > >> [I suggested using ftp.us.debian.org rather than http.debian.net because >> of problems with squeeze-lts on the latter] >> >> On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 01:57:34PM +0100, Ml Ml wrote: >>> Looks good! >>>

Re: Possibility of Denial of Service in dictd?

2015-01-18 Thread Riley Baird
> running, for example `dictd -s regexp [a-z]` would return the entire Sorry; I mean `dict -s regexp [a-z]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54bc8b

Possibility of Denial of Service in dictd?

2015-01-18 Thread Riley Baird
concern is that for larger dictionaries, an attacker could repeatedly make requests for significant portions of the dictionary, thus leading to denial of service. This could potentially be mitigated by imposing a limit on the amount of data that can be sent per request. Yours sincerely, Riley Baird

Signify - OpenBSD's cryptographic signing tool

2015-01-07 Thread Riley Baird
tion about signify can be obtained from http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/signify Yours sincerely, Riley Baird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54ae2908.60...@bitmessage.ch

Re: Kernal version upload

2014-12-02 Thread Riley Baird
On 02/12/14 20:11, Kalai Nbm wrote: > Plz help kernal version upload Can you be any more specific? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/547d9e36.4010..

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-11-03 Thread Riley Baird
code. > > Regards > Leslie > Mr. Leslie Satenstein > Montréal Québec, Canada > > > > From: Riley Baird > To: Leslie S Satenstein > Cc: "debian-security@lists.debian.org" > Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 12:09 AM > Subject: Re: streql

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-11-01 Thread Riley Baird
max_time. > > What is the application requirement that requires a waste of cpu cycles to > yield constant time? It is not for security, or multitasking, so what is it? > Regards > Leslie > Mr. Leslie Satenstein > Montréal Québec, Canada > > > >

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-11-01 Thread Riley Baird
>> Would you be willing to sponsor the upstream streql, > > Not sure what you mean there. I was asking if you would be able to upload the Debian package of streql that I made into the Debian archive. When I wrote it, I thought you were a DD, but upon checking it seems that you aren't. So, are the

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-11-01 Thread Riley Baird
nstant-time string comparison > > Here's the result of my work to this point: > > --- > /* Near-constant run time string/memory compare, with test frame. > ** by Joel Rees, > ** derived from work by Peter Scott, Riley Baird, et. al., see > ** https://lists.deb

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-11-01 Thread Riley Baird
n > > I gotta quit coding when I should be asleep. > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> Here's the result of my work to this point: >> >> --- >> /* Near-constant run time string/memory compare, with test frame. >

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-11-01 Thread Riley Baird
ory compare, with test frame. >> ** by Joel Rees, >> ** derived from work by Peter Scott, Riley Baird, et. al., see >> ** https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2014/10/msg00060.html >> ** https://github.com/PeterScott/streql >> ** >> ** Use allowed under GPL

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-10-30 Thread Riley Baird
gt; Regards > Leslie > Mr. Leslie Satenstein > Montréal Québec, Canada > > > > From: Riley Baird > To: Leslie S Satenstein > Cc: "debian-security@lists.debian.org" ; > 765...@bugs.debian.org > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 4:16 PM &

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-10-30 Thread Riley Baird
ose the files are in the order of 200,000 records each. Or, if in > banking, or government applications, in the order of 20 million records per > file. > > Regards > Leslie > Mr. Leslie Satenstein > Montréal Québec, Canada > > > > From: Riley Baird >

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-10-29 Thread Riley Baird
On 30/10/14 01:34, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > Hi Riley > > Suppose the strings are 10k bytes each (10240), but they differ at byte zero, > where is the break instruction to stop the compare? Why would there need to be a break instruction? That would mean that the time taken to compare strings

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-10-29 Thread Riley Baird
On 29/10/14 19:55, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 28-10-14 20:59 , Riley Baird wrote: >> As far as I can tell, your code ensures that even if the strings are of >> different length, an equality calculation should be performed anyway, >> however returning 0, on the grounds th

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-10-29 Thread Riley Baird
On 29/10/14 17:00, Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/10/29 4:59 "Riley Baird" < > bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch>: >> >> On 29/10/14 00:20, Joel Rees wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Riley Baird >>> wrote: >>>>

Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-10-28 Thread Riley Baird
On 29/10/14 00:20, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Riley Baird > wrote: >> Dear debian-security, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "streql". >> >> In Python, the code for testing the equality of strings is suscept

streql - Constant-time string comparison

2014-10-27 Thread Riley Baird
, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/streql/streql_3.0.2-1.dsc Changes since last upload: * Initial release (Closes: #764443) Regards, Riley Baird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org