Re: [Bcrypt-users] Bug in bcrypt

[Schmidt, C. T. <ct...@ra...>]

Hi all,

the error seems to be memory-related.

I encountered it on some memory restrained systems we use: bcrypt seems only
to be able to encrypt/decrypt files that are smaller than half of the
available RAM.

I am by no means a programmer, so I can't help with much more then this *"mee
too"*-message.

Regards,
 Christian.

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:43, Oliver Burghard <
Oli...@st...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just encountered a serious bug. I encrypted a 7.1GB file. The
> resulting encrypted file contained only the first 682 MB of data - but
> no error was reported and the original file was removed.
>
> This is a serious bug as my original file is now lost. It is necessary
> that the deletion of the original is only done on assured success of the
> encryption. Additionally an error should be printed when encryption
> fails.
>
> I have ubuntu 9.10 and bcrypt 1.1-5 (ubuntu version number).
>
> Well can not attach the original 7 GB file as it is lost ...
>
>
>
>
>
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