[OTR-dev] 4.0.0-rc3 ready to roll. Please try it out!

[Greg Troxel]

Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 07:58:01AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> > Something's jogging my memory.  There was one (beta?) version of
>> > libgcrypt that didn't correctly handle counter-mode encryption of
>> > messages that weren't a multiple of the block size.  When used with
>> > libotr, it would give exactly the error you reported.  But it should
>> > give the same error with the old libotr (3.2.x), so that doesn't seem
>> > like it's the right explanation.
>> >
>> > http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-dev/2011-April/001168.html
>> 
>> pkgsrc (and thus my system) has 1.5.0.  There are some pkgsrc patches,
>> but they're about other things.  And I did not rebuild libgcrypt or
>> pidgin, just libotr and pidgin-otr.
>
> Can you confirm that the 1.5.0 in pkgsrc already has the above patch
> applied to it?

No, it doesn't.   I can add it.   But I assumed 1.5.0 was a real release
and if there was a bug there would have been another real release of
libgcrypt.

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