Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 04:10:13 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: security/openssh and BigNumber Message-ID: <20010414041013.B90900@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104080107220.17337-100000@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu>; from meshko@cs.brandeis.edu on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 01:08:42AM -0400 References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104080107220.17337-100000@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu>
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--K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 01:08:42AM -0400, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > Hi, > I might be wrong here, but I think that BigNumber library is part of > openssh package on Linux... it doesn't seem to be so on FreeBSD. > Actually I couldn't find any port containing full bignumber install (i.e. > with man pages). I've installed pgp5 and it came with the libbn.so, but no > man pages... what's up? My best guess about what this might be is the bignum code which is part of libcrypto (OpenSSL), which is in the base system. It's not the same thing which pgp5 uses, and I can't say for sure what Linux tries to do. Kris --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE62DAVWry0BWjoQKURAkrDAKCj1GtjTU8OB3pBYI+MGSV3H10m5wCeK9rC npIi1EQ+scFeycGCotRhl1Y= =gqcP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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