echolot terminates at expired DSA key

[Peter Palfrader]

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On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Frell Remailer Admins wrote:

> Echolot daemon terminates silently when it tries to ping a remailer with =
an=20
> expired DSA-Key. Last line in the log is always:
> "ping calling cpunk-dsa, remailer@shellgame.abditum.com, 1741C41DDA1D6631"
>=20
> This remailer holds expired keys and echolot probably doesn't cope with=
=20
> GnuPGs warning message.
>=20
> I can reproduce this, though I don't get any error messages, neither from=
=20
> echolot nor does the grsec-kernel log a segfault:
>=20
> echolot@drow:/var/lib/echolot# ps ux|grep pingd
> echolot   2674  1.1  6.6 12076 10552 ?       S    14:01   0:15 pingd [sle=
eping]
> echolot  32695  0.0  0.3  1544  488 pts/10   S    14:23   0:00 grep pingd
>=20
> echolot@drow:/var/lib/echolot# pingd sendpings remailer@shellgame.abditum=
.com
>=20
> echolot@drow:/var/lib/echolot# ps ux|grep pingd
> echolot  21162  0.0  0.3  1544  484 pts/10   S    14:23   0:00 grep pingd
>=20
>=20
> Has anyone seen the same behaviour?

Yes, I did. But I've so far I haven't been able to find out when or why
exactly it dies.  Because sending to bad keys works most of the time,
but not always.  Echolot dies when printing messages to gnupg's stdin if
it doesn't work.  I blame GnuPG::Interface until I can prove its
innocense :)  I also hope to find a work around or fix soon - patches
apprechiated.


					yours,
					peter
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