[Box Backup] out-of-the-blue CipherException?

Chris Wilson chris at qwirx.com
Sat Apr 28 19:28:01 BST 2012


Hi Matto,

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Having thought about it some more, I think it's an incredible coincidence 
> that the protocol stream would get corrupted by a random error just after a 
> failed decrypt, so my working hypothesis is dirty state in libssl. It will 
> take me some time to write up proper tests for this.

I think I've fixed this error now, although I haven't finished repairing 
the damage that this has done to the tests. Anyway it would be great if 
you could try out the latest trunk and let me know if it fixes the problem 
for you.

Cheers, Chris.
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