DES?

2014-10-22 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Can someone explain what this will impact in normal use? Does this mean that passwords will default to DES? I've dug around a little and I'm not seeing where a default is set for passwords - my desktop right now is using sha512, but if I had to guess I'd say it's because it was the crypt(3) default

Re: DES?

2014-10-22 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:58:01AM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > my desktop right now is using sha512, but if I had to guess I'd say it's > because it was the crypt(3) default. Or I could look at login.conf and see that it's set to sha512 there. Never mind. Nothing to

Re: DES?

2014-10-22 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:08:31PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > See https://bugs.freebsd.org/192277 for details and examples of affected > applications. Ah, thank you. That sheds a lot more light on it. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.org Ewige Blumenkraft!

Quarterly packages and security updates...

2015-08-13 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
kages found. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.orgEwige Blumenkraft! (if awake 'sleep (aref #(sleep dream) (random 2))) -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Quarterly packages and security updates...

2015-08-13 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 04:20:08PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > subversion-1.8.10_3 is vulnerable: To clarify, I had this one artificially held back. The up to date quarterly package vulnerability list for Subversion looks like this: subversion-1.8.13_2 is vulnerable: subvers

Re: Quarterly packages and security updates...

2015-08-13 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
quarterly branches, because I think it's a great idea generally. Falling back to the high-churn option to get access to security patches when what you want is a stable environment is an awful idea. I'm hoping that we do this, but do it right. I can't see how anyone could find fault with

Re: Quarterly packages and security updates...

2015-08-14 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
m sincerely, deeply grateful that the high- profile stuff I pointed out was fixed so rapidly in response to my pointing it out. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson _