Re: dowkd.pl false positives

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>]

On May 17, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Someone has added a warning to the wiki page
> <http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys> that dowdkd.pl "produces many false
> positives".
>
> Even if there are bugs in the script, this is *very* unlikely.  Could
> someone please provide such an alleged false positive?

Perhaps confusion over false negatives - as the current ring does not  
include
all endian/cpu flavours - it is possible (currently) for it to return no
compromised keys - while there are in fact some. As the tool does not  
yet
check for all keys.

Dw.