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From: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
To: sup-devel <sup-devel@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-devel] [PATCH] Fixed inline gpg crash when the end marker is missing
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:09:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1286284088-sup-3859@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286278748-sup-3282@twin.sascha.silbe.org>

Excerpts from Sascha Silbe's message of Tue Oct 05 07:42:58 -0400 2010:

> Just encountered this one with some message in the "Error when
> verifying tags signed using 1.7.3.1" thread [1] on the git mailing
> list.  The patch works fine for me, thanks!

Yes, me too.  Patch applied and my sup is back in business.

> FWIW, I think your approach of not trying to decrypt mails that
> contain no end marker is the right thing to do: If the end marker is
> missing, the message most likely has been garbled in other ways as
> well (or simply cut off in the middle), causing decryption to fail
> anyway.

I agree with this rationale.  Feeding the entire message to gpg if no
end marker is seen isn't the way to go, I don't think.

Rich, can this hit master?

Thanks
-Ben
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Ben Walton
Systems Programmer - CHASS
University of Toronto
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTimw-xi2XCdn3R3QHoDFFv-4cD7GxCoHWxbta-0r@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-04 21:51 ` Michael Hamann
2010-09-11 16:42   ` Edward Z. Yang
2010-10-05 11:42   ` Sascha Silbe
2010-10-05 13:09     ` Ben Walton [this message]
2010-10-08  4:23   ` Rich Lane

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