Subject: bin/21056: cgdconfig should use 128 as default for keygen_iterations
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/07/2003 21:19:19
>Number: 21056
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: cgdconfig should use 128 as default for keygen_iterations
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 07 12:20:00 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Christian Biere
>Release: NetBSD 1.6Q
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Older config files for cgd devices may lack the keygen_iterations
setting. The current cgdconfig doesn't configure the device in such a
case.
The following is from a short thread at the current-users
mailing list staring with Message-Id:
<20030324023134.19C62174D2@arioch.imrryr.org>.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Roland Dowdeswell sent me a mail writing as follows:
Hmmm, this is a bug in my recent changes to cgdconfig(8)---not a
need for additional documentation. In the absence of a
keygen_iterations line, I should default to 128 like the old version
did. I didn't notice it, because I had changed cgdconfig(8) to output
the keygen_iterations line a couple of months ago.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
>> PKCS#5 PBKDF2 ITERATION CALIBRATION
>> What I do in this update is
>> calibrate the PKCS#5 PBKDF2 algorithm to take about 1s to
>> generate the key from the passphrase on your computer.
>
>Maybe you should mention that the previously used iteration count was
>128. So if someone has just updated and wants to configure the cgd
>device, he should add "keygen_iterations 128" to the config file for
>the device.