Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-10 Thread Joel Sing
On Saturday 10 February 2018 11:09:04 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:24:38 +1100 > > > > Just in case some libressl dev doesn't want read the full thread in > > > the Alpine list, they want also a workaround for the lack of time_t > > > for 32bits platforms on Linux. > > > > We've

Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:24:38 +1100 > > Just in case some libressl dev doesn't want read the full thread in > > the Alpine list, they want also a workaround for the lack of time_t > > for 32bits platforms on Linux. > > We've already addressed this - a notafter that exceeds 2038 is > clamped to

Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-09 Thread Joel Sing
On Saturday 10 February 2018 00:05:27 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: [snip] > Just in case some libressl dev doesn't want read the full thread in the > Alpine list, they want also a workaround for the lack of time_t for > 32bits platforms on Linux. We've already addressed this - a notafter

Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-09 Thread Theo de Raadt
> It isn't just this. Qt 5.10 introduces new dependency on OpenSSL 1.1 > APIs for improved security, and LibreSSL does not implement those APIs > at all. The 1.1 API does not improve security. If anything, the new API requires to you repeat the same or similar arguments to many functions, and in

Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-02-09, A. Wilcox wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) > --DCcmjS5tsvvgDBhgH7OD8mW309G9dT8Dp > From: "A. Wilcox" > To: misc@openbsd.org > Message-ID: > Subject: Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security > Referen

Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-09 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 12:58:30PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I assume you know far more than me and A.Wilcox from the Alpine list > but this was mentioned. They are planning to revert to OpenSSL next > week. > > I don't use Alpine, though it is possibly my preferred Linux, just > thought I wo

Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-09 Thread A. Wilcox
On 02/09/18 11:48, Stuart Henderson wrote: > I don't understand that, Cryptography is OK with LibreSSL. There have > been some problems at various times but they were either patched locally > or fixed upstream - we're a couple of point releases behind the latest > at the moment with no libressl-rel

Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-09 Thread Allan Streib
Kevin Chadwick writes: > I wish libressl could keep the 32 bit time_t workaround til linux > kernel had fixed the problem instead of knowingly break things. Now I > don't see we have much of an option since 32 bit linux is basically > not supported by libressl at this point. Contortions in the c

Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Thanks for the information Stu. Unfortunately I am not sure it will help in the end. Their project leader Natanael stated the following. The fact that libressl developers are not willing to workaround 32 bit linux time_t is the deal br

Re: LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-02-09, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > It isn't just this. Qt 5.10 introduces new dependency on OpenSSL 1.1 > APIs for improved security, and LibreSSL does not implement those APIs > at all. btw I haven't looked at Qt but some ports are already held back in OpenBSD because it's just getting too

LibreSSL Linux portability and OpenBSD security

2018-02-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I assume you know far more than me and A.Wilcox from the Alpine list but this was mentioned. They are planning to revert to OpenSSL next week. I don't use Alpine, though it is possibly my preferred Linux, just thought I would mention it. To be honest, I don't even know if facilitating wider adopt