Subject: Re: userauth_publickey_fromfile() fails occasionally for no reason

Re: userauth_publickey_fromfile() fails occasionally for no reason

From: Simon Josefsson <simon_at_josefsson.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:00:19 +0100

Kamil Dudka <kdudka_at_redhat.com> writes:

> On Thursday 17 of December 2009 08:34:03 Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Do we have any reports that the old code didn't work? If we don't, and
>> assuming the new code was broken, I don't see any reason not to revert
>> back to the old code meanwhile.
>
> Wait, it's other way around. The old code was broken. It used to fail
> with probability about 5%. After the fix from 2009-12-06, which fixed
> the OpenSSL code fairly well though, it was merely impossible to connect
> with libgrcrypt.

Right, I noticed. Sorry.

> With my follow-up patch it finally worked 100% reliably. I haven't
> had time to look at the new patch Peter has written, will do ASAP.

Great. So rather than having me revert the patch I pushed and cause
more confusion, let's see if you can test the new patch (post it to the
list?) and let you/Peter push that.

/Simon
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Received on 2009-12-17