Re: update on the djbdns bugs?

"Jason Frisvold" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Kevin Day <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry for the delay, I've had a whole heck of a lot going on.
>
> I'm trying to be as responsible as I can here. There is a real, but not
> earth-shattering problem with djbdns with regard to spoofing. The same type
> of issue may also be present in another DNS package, but it's proving to be
> considerably harder to quantify and isolate, so I want to do the right thing
> and not say "This problem exists in djbdns" and have someone 5 minutes later
> realize it's also in product X where it's potentially worse.

Is this similar to the Kaminsky bug, or something entirely new?

> I am still working on all of this though, with some gracious help from a few
> people with far more mathematical skills than I have to exactly quantify the
> risk and correctness of a fix. We all believe that releasing a document that
> accurately describes the problem in ways I can't would be far better for
> everyone than to just release a diff and try to explain why it may help.

Mathematical skills..  Sounds like a prediction bug...

> That said, I will make every attempt to expedite this, since I know you guys
> are waiting.
>
> -- Kevin

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