[2052] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: Beta 6 fails make check - SHS test 1 failed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Acheson)
Thu Jun 27 09:26:35 1996
From: Todd Acheson <acheson@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:30:53 -0500
Thank you again.
All is well now.
On Wed, 26 Jun 1996 21:57:29 -0400 Theodore Ts'o
<tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu> wrote:
> From: Todd Acheson
<acheson@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:08:17 -0500
>
> On DEC UNIX 3.2c
>
> The make executed cleanly, but make check fails:
>
> "SHS test 1 failed"
>
> I am currently looking at the code.
>
> This is a known bug, which slipped out before we released the code. SHS
> isn't used in the current krb5 release, so it isn't a disaster (and the
> 3DES/SHS code is *advertised* as going to change before the algorithms
> settle down.)
>
> The problem is that the init variable needs to be initialized to 1
> before the test. It's pretty obvious bug in the
> big-endian/little-endian detection code.
>
> - Ted
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