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Hi, with current test releases SSL doesn't work anymore for me on AIX 4.3 with dovecot-0.99.10-test14. It worked with 0.99.9.1. dovecot: Jun 23 19:42:23 Info: Dovecot starting up imap-login: Jun 23 19:42:25 Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded imap-login: Jun 23 19:42:25 Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number

I've been seeing the Dovecot/SSL/Fedora 1 problem. I have a dovecot server which tends to die at least once a day, with messages like these :- May 24 13:44:44 mail pop3-login: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded May 24 13:44:44 mail dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down I noticed Timo's email about this at:

Dovecot died twice today. This was in the maillog: Apr 9 17:50:27 ciscy pop3-login: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded Apr 9 17:50:27 ciscy dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down I think I can cause it to happen reliably and I'm asking for other to test this scenario: Open several terminal windows. In each, type

I woke up this morning and my dovecot server had died with the following in the dovecot.log file: pop3-login: Jan 23 10:23:08 Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: child 16321 (login) returned error 89 How can I find out

(Sorry, just joined the list, can't reply in the original message from Feb 4.) > Hi, > Dovecot (pre-compiled version of Fedora Core 1, configured for Maildir) > is running fine for me since a few days. It happened now twice to me > that dovecot died with the following error message in /var/log/maillog: > > Feb 4 11:18:27 hundehuette imap-login: RAND_bytes() failed: >

Hi, Dovecot (pre-compiled version of Fedora Core 1, configured for Maildir) is running fine for me since a few days. It happened now twice to me that dovecot died with the following error message in /var/log/maillog: Feb 4 11:18:27 hundehuette imap-login: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded Feb 4 11:18:27 hundehuette dovecot: Login

Hi, Yesterday I tried to replace the system openssl in a gentoo system with libressl. With openssh an interesting issue popped up: * RAND_bytes in libressl calls arc4random * arc4random is a compat function both in openssh and libressl * arc4random from openssh uses RAND_bytes So what's happening is a recursion. arc4random wants to use RAND_bytes and RAND_bytes wants to use arc4random. The

Hello, I have been doing some looking at openssl 0.9.7 and openssh3.5p1 and found a minor descrepancy. RAND_bytes() is called around line 69 of openbsd-compat/bsd-arc4random.c. It checks to see if the return is not zero. The RAND_bytes function can also return -1, too. All the code in openssl uses <=0 for the test rather than !. Best Regards, Steve Grubb

Hi, dovecot tries to use OpenSSL's PRNG to generate random numbers if there is no /dev/urandom found. Unfortunately, it is flawed in its present form, since the PRNG is not seeded before RAND_bytes() is called in src/lib/randgen.c (on systems which have /dev/urandom, OpenSSL automatically seeds its PRNG from the urandom device). Here's a patch to address this issue: it tries to seed

Now that ssh-rand-helper has been segregated into a separate program, I'd like to revisit an old question about its entropy gathering. - would it be desirable to make it possible for ssh-rand-helper to fall back to external commands if PRNGD cannot be reached, instead of choosing one or the other at compile time? - When using PRNGD, the program gets 48 bytes of entropy from PRNGD,

From: Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk> The kernel.h macro DIV_ROUND_UP performs the computation (((n) + (d) - 1) / (d)) but is perhaps more readable. An extract of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @haskernel@ @@ #include <linux/kernel.h> @depends on haskernel@ expression n,d; @@ ( - (n + d - 1) / d +

From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> If spin_lock_irqsave is called twice in a row with the same second argument, the interrupt state at the point of the second call overwrites the value saved by the first call. Indeed, the second call does not need to save the interrupt state, so it is changed to a simple spin_lock. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:

Hi. SunOS 4 is one system that relies on the strerror() in bsd-misc.[ch]. However, that replacement function does not have the right prototype. This is fixed in the patch below. There was also an error with sys_errlist not being explicitely declared. Also fixed. There was another weird link-time problem with bsd-misc.o being at the same time used by some *.o in libssh.a and using itself

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Just a few more changes: - --with-moduledir option to configure - compile fix to Solaris 10 - mbox syncing complains if mbox is modified while we have it locked and something goes wrong (lock settings are wrong) - maildir: RENAME xx inbox.xx makes sure INBOX is uppercased. - "RAND_bytes() failed:" SSL "fix" for fedora/redhat -------------- next

I'm using OpenSSH 2.3.0p1. When my users use ssh for the first time, using rhosts authentication, entropy.c drops the privs in prng_write_seedfile() at the setuid(original_uid) line (line 550, approx): void prng_write_seedfile(void) { int fd; char seed[1024]; char filename[1024]; struct passwd *pw; /* Don't bother if we have already saved a seed */ if (prng_seed_saved) return;

Hi, I just moved my cfservd (a part of sysutils/cfengine) from a 6.2 server to a 7.0 server. Ever since, cfservd crashes regularly. The backtrace is below, although obviously it is missing a lot. If anyone has clues or suggestions, I'd really appreciate it. # gdb /usr/local/sbin/cfservd cfservd.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free

I think that Robert Olssons post never made it through the filters... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 12:32:53 +0200 From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se> To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk> Cc: Andreas John <lists@aj.net-lab.net>, Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>, lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: Re: [LARTC] Linux

Greetings, On the official documentation page, http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/docs.html, there are links to the documents describing the released libraries, ie. libvorbis, vorbisfile and vorbisenc. However, the first one is not a link at all, although I seem to remember that it was so earlier. I also downloaded the SDK for Mac OSX, which sorta contains a documentation for libvorbis, but

One more bugfix since rc2: - Maildir: synchronization might have sometimes set wrong flags to messages, or crash completely Quite rare because we were lucky before :) And list of all the changes one more time: v0.99.10.5 2003-12-27 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> + MySQL authentication, patch by Matthew Reimer + --with-moduledir configure option - mbox: APPEND reversed given

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