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Message-ID: <482DC363.4010506@chatspike.net>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 18:24:51 +0100
From: "Craig Edwards (Brain)" <brain@...tspike.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: OpenSSH key blacklisting
Hi,
I havent been following this debacle too closely as i dont have much to
do with debian, however, wouldnt such a system be vulnerable to false
positives if you are just going to hash partial fingerprints rather than
whole fingerprints?
-- Brain
Solar Designer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are any other distros, besides Debian, Ubuntu, and derived ones, going
> to implement key blacklisting in OpenSSH - or are considering it?
>
> We are considering it for Openwall GNU/*/Linux, and if our effort would
> be reused by others, or if others join us in developing and/or testing
> the patch, this would be a reason for us to go for it.
>
> I don't think we'll take the Debian/Ubuntu patch as-is. Rather, we are
> likely to use a trivial binary encoding/compression method for the
> partial fingerprints. We'd also use smaller partial fingerprints. With
> the approach I have in mind, it'd take around 4.55 bytes per key to
> store 48-bit partial fingerprints, bringing the installed file size for
> 3 arch types and 2 key types/sizes in under 1 MB (or just over 1 MB for
> 3 key types/sizes).
>
> Please comment.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alexander
>
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