Re: pgcrypto 3des failure, OpenSSL 0.9.8, Solaris 9/sparc

Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>

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From: Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>

To: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>

Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2005-07-05T16:21:17Z

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On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:40:08AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On my Solaris 9/sparc box with OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta6, the pgcrypto
> regression tests fail the 3des test.  I haven't checked against
> older versions of OpenSSL; I'll do so when I get a chance.
> 
> I haven't dug into the pgcrypto code yet -- is it doing anything
> that might be platform-specific?  Or is this more likely a problem
> with OpenSSL?

It is a bug in pgcrypto.  I can only excuse it with my strong antipathy
towards 3des.

Could you test it with newer OpenSSL?

-- 
marko