Re: The Stack Clash vulnerability

2017-06-22 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 01:14:33PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > I know, but with potentially serious issues even M$ issue patches for > older release... Microsoft even has 114,000 employees [1]. There are billions of paying customers, so Microsoft has staff and money to test and backport pat

Re: fbsd11 & sshv1

2017-01-31 Thread Lars Engels
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 05:30:17PM +, heasley wrote: > I do appreciate fbsd's and openssh's altruism with the removal of v1 support. > But, the fact is that there is equipment in the wild that does not support > v2 and never will and otherwise works perfectly fine, yet sshv1 is still a > better

Re: bind9 and CVE-2013-4854

2013-07-29 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:03:43PM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > A question related to this: > > What is it that prevents BIND from being removed from the base when > there are very well working ports of BIND already that are far easier > to update when vulnerabilities are found. Is it the dig(1)

Re: Default password hash

2012-06-11 Thread Lars Engels
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:51:45AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Damian Weber writes: > > *collision* attacks are relatively easy these days, but against 1 MD5, > > not against 1000 times MD5 > > I'm not talking about collision attacks, I'm talking about brute-forcing > hashes. > > > ther

Re: Default password hash

2012-06-08 Thread Lars Engels
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:51:55PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > We still have MD5 as our default password hash, even though known-hash > attacks against MD5 are relatively easy these days. We've supported > SHA256 and SHA512 for many years now, so how about making SHA512 the > default inste