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Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:48:21 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>,
	Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@...e.de>, Andreas Jaeger <aj@...e.de>,
	Zefram <zefram@...h.org>, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@...il.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: crypt_blowfish 8-bit character mishandling

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 04:37:36PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Solar Designer wrote:
> >I am tempted to just release the current code as 1.2 now.  We won't
> >arrive at a perfect solution anyway, because it doesn't exist.  And we
> >need to let other projects upgrade to better/safer code (dealing with
> >one-correct to many-buggy collisions) sooner rather than later.
> 
> Indeed.

I've just released crypt_blowfish 1.2:

http://www.openwall.com/crypt/

All projects using crypt_blowfish should upgrade to this newer code.

Alexander

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