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Subject:    Re: [strongSwan] strongSwan-4.0.7: Possible bug in Encode()
From:       "angus mackinnon" <ajmackinnon () optusnet ! com ! au>
Date:       2007-02-28 11:05:25
Message-ID: 001301c75b28$65ff5440$6400a8c0 () home
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Hi Martin,
Thanks for your prompt response. I now have a clear picture of where the 
testing is at for the big endian version.

I will let you know if I come across anything else.

regards

Angus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Willi" <martin@strongswan.org>
To: <ajmackinnon@optusnet.com.au>
Cc: <users@lists.strongswan.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [strongSwan] strongSwan-4.0.7: Possible bug in Encode() 
inmd5_hasher.c


> Hi Angus,
>
>> size_t *len, is a pointer when it appears it should not be
>> (based on the way it is used in the for loop in the function). Any 
>> comments?
> This really souldn't be a pointer. It seems to be a typo introduced
> while porting the MD5 hasher code from the IKEv1 daemon pluto to the
> strongSwan library. I'll fix that.
>
> We have done only minimal tests on big endian machines. Due the lack of
> a physical machine, we have tested it in an emulated MIPS enviroment. As
> this is boring slow, we were unable to test all configurations (e.g. MD5
> hashing) yet.
>
>> My question following on from this is, does strongSwan-4.0.7 have
>> any other known issues for bigendian platforms such as the PowerPC?
> There are no known issues, but we couldn't test it completely. We
> recently have acquired an UltraSparc to do more extensive testing on
> that, but I haven't found time to set it up yet.
> Further, we will introduce a testing framework within the next months to
> automatically test any crypto routines. This will help detecting such
> issues on other platforms.
>
> Thanks for your bug report. Feel free to report any issues you find,
> this would help to improve big endian support in strongSwan.
>
> Best regards
> Martin
>
>
> 

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