Dropbear test version 2013.61test with ECC

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Sun Nov 17 10:54:13 WST 2013



NiLuJe <ninuje at gmail.com> wrote:

>* libtomcrypt has to be built w/ -DLTM_DESC for ECC support (I'm using
>external libtom* libs).

Yes, I guess people can always force bundled libtom*. I think Debian builds libtomcrypt with LTM_DESC but doesn't set the macro in tomcrypt_custom, which is why I set it separately.
>
>
>* I had to patch the configure script to detect libtommath before
>libtomcrypt so that the LIBS var was built in the right order to please
>recent binutils versions (libtomcrypt depends on libtommath, so
>-ltommath
>has to come *after* -ltomcrypt).

Thanks, I updated the makefile for that but missed configure's tests.

>* Didn't really look further than that, but dropbearconvert dropbear ->
>openssh on a fresh ecdsa key generated by dropbearkey dies with a "***
>glibc
>detected *** dropbearconvert: free(): corrupted unsorted chunks:
>0x000530b0
>***" (take this one with a grain of salt, that's on a Kindle 5 [eglibc
>2.12], so there may be some weirdness involved).


Sounds like a Dropbear bug, I'll investigate. 

Thanks,
Matt 



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