[Monotone-devel] Re: Regular HMAC problems

[Graydon Hoare]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:58:06 +0200 (CEST), Richard 
> Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> said:
>
> richard> My next try will be to take the regular mtn head (nvm) and
> richard> see if that makes a difference.
>
> It did.  Weird, there's nothing in the changes from
> nvm.levitte.select-heads-of or nvm.debian that even comes close to
> the netsync or hmac code!

I can imagine three possibilities:

 - someone just snuck some sort of self-hiding trojan thing in, *or*
 - your compiler or system libraries made the crypto break
   temporarily
 - your ISP installed a router with a lousy MTU which started
   mangling packets (or some other amusing real-world benign-intent
   corruption scenario)

I'd like to believe one of the latter cases. If the mtn you're using is 
on a private branch I can't look much closer, though.

-graydon