oss-security - Re: CVE request: openssl timing attack

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Message-ID: <20110710060508.GB8303@openwall.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:05:08 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: openssl timing attack

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:51:39PM +0200, Tomas Hoger wrote:
> We have bugzilla (as usual, use CVE as a bug id), but not too useful
> for other distros, as it only says we're not affected.  All EC crypto is
> one of the "patent or otherwise encumbered" code pieces that are removed
> and not compiled in.
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blob;f=hobble-openssl;h=a8be844f6ba7654b5738ae0e27e192a38797bd74;hb=master

Oh, I did not realize this was the case.  Looks like we don't compile
this stuff in either - we have "no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-ec no-ecdh
no-ecdsa" on the ./Configure line.

Thanks,

Alexander

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