echolot terminates at expired DSA key

[Peter Palfrader]

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Peter Palfrader wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Frell Remailer Admins wrote:
>=20
> > Echolot daemon terminates silently when it tries to ping a remailer wit=
h an=20
> > expired DSA-Key. Last line in the log is always:
> > "ping calling cpunk-dsa, remailer@shellgame.abditum.com, 1741C41DDA1D66=
31"
> >=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 fr=
om=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 [s=
leeping]
> > echolot  32695  0.0  0.3  1544  488 pts/10   S    14:23   0:00 grep pin=
gd
> >=20
> > echolot@drow:/var/lib/echolot# pingd sendpings remailer@shellgame.abdit=
um.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 pin=
gd
> >=20
> >=20
> > Has anyone seen the same behaviour?
>=20
> 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.

I have checked in a workaround into CVS.  If anybody wants to test it,
I'ld apprechiate the feedback.

					yours,
					peter
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