Bug#780828: ssl-cert: make-ssl-cert leaves window where new secret key may be world-readable

2015-03-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: ssl-cert Version: 1.0.35 Severity: normal make-ssl-cert appears to create the secret key material and then chmod it to restrict permissions. This leaves a race condition where a non-privileged user on the system can read the file before the permissions change takes effect, thereby

Bug#732450: please sign new apache releases only with strong keys -- trimming the KEYS file

2013-12-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 12/26/2013 06:18 PM, Nick Kew wrote: You're ahead of us. Individual Apache folks like Jim have taken responsibility and moved to 4096-bit keys, but we haven't as a community had the discussion that might lead to pruning KEYS. My inclination is to say NO to requiring anyone to remove old

Bug#732450: please sign new apache releases only with strong keys -- trimming the KEYS file

2013-12-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi apache folks-- In http://bugs.debian.org/732450, debian is preparing to cryptographically verify OpenPGP signatures on apache upstream tarballs. As part of the dicsussion, it's become clear that some of the keys in https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/KEYS are weak by any modern consideration of

Bug#732450: debian/watch: help uscan verify PGP signature automatically

2013-12-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 12/23/2013 06:48 AM, Arno Töll wrote: thanks for that suggestion. I added your patch for the upcoming package upload. great, thank you! I did, however, add the full keyring of Apache developers that /could/ sign a release as listed in http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/KEYS While we're

Bug#699327: libaprutil1-dev: please ship find_apu.m4

2013-01-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: libaprutil1-dev Version: 1.4.1-3 Severity: normal debian/patches/ship_find_apu.m4.patch seems to think that it is going to cause find_apu.m4 to be shipped with one of the binary packages, but it doesn't seem to have that effect. find_apu.m4 ends up in the top level of debian/tmp, but

Bug#598732: /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf should use 2048 bits

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: ssl-cert Version: 1.0.26 Severity: normal this is the shipped version of /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf, which is used for make-ssl-cert to generate the default key and snakeoil certificate. - # # SSLeay example configuration file. # RANDFILE=

Bug#598732: /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf should use 2048 bits

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/01/2010 11:58 AM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: 1024 bits are more than enough to satisfy the security expectations of an auto-generated snake-oil key for the life time of squeeze. The key is not snake-oil. The X.509 *certificate* is snake-oil, what with being self-signed and all. A perfectly

Bug#494768: confirming that this is still a problem for apache serving from a CIFS mounts on lenny

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/25/2009 05:17 PM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: I don't deny this and it is certainly not optimal, but it works as documented. I have poked upstream about it but I don't expect that it changes in the near future. OK, fair enough. Is there anything in an upstream bugtracker? Should we link

Bug#494768: confirming that this is still a problem for apache serving from a CIFS mounts on lenny

2009-03-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I can verify that apache2-mpm-worker is indeed having this problem when serving static files from a CIFS mount on a modern lenny system. Each HTTP fetch is capable of pulling some smallish amount of bytes (~10K for some connections i've tried) before the TCP connection abruptly terminates. On