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Bug#451355: ITP: libgfshare -- library and utilities for multi-way secret sharing



On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:31:06AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > I already packaged this in Ubuntu. Feel free to adopt it for Debian.
> Having looked at the Ubuntu packaging, I'm somewhat concerned about it
> - it seems you don't have the changes I made in upstream bzr to make
> gfsplit cryptographically safe.

No, I wasn't aware of such changes.

> The patch to gfcombine to support "-" as meaning standard output looks
> reasonable, but I'm not sure what it's doing in Ubuntu but not
> upstream... perhaps we could get that in 1.0.3. The patch is:

The patch should definitely have been sent upstream. My apologies. I
wrote it while on a train, and when I got near internet access again, I
had forgotten all about it. I suck.

> although I'd be inclined to change it to just use stdout instead of
> fdopening STDOUT_FILENO, 

Makes sense. I can't remember why I did it that way, tbh.

> and make the indentation consistent (the rest of the package
> consistently uses 2 spaces, the "else" clause in the patch has a tab).

Good catch.

-- 
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/

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