Re: [Burp-users] Questions about 1.1.14

[Graham K. <ke...@sp...>]

Hello,

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:48:08AM +0100, Sebastiano Pilla wrote:
> Graham,
> 
> I have some questions about the latest 1.1.14 release:
> 
> - if it's not too much of a burden for you, would it be possible to post 
> release announcements to this mailing list as well? I saw the 
> announcement by accident in a Freshmeat feed, whereas if it is posted to 
> the mailing list I won't miss it

OK, that's a good idea.

> - if I do not want to encrypt my backups, what should I set in the 
> client configuration file? Should I have
> 
> encryption_password=
> 
> i.e. empty but the line is present in the client configuration file, or 
> should I make sure that there's no encryption_password line altogether?

If you do not want encryption, just don't mention encryption_password at all.
I shall add this information to the man page.

> - I suppose that backups made with previous version will still work with 
> 1.1.14, since there's no mention of incompatibilities. Could you confirm 
> this?

Yes, I can confirm this.

> - Lastly, I see that the 1.1.14 Windows build tools are only available 
> in mingw32 version, I do not see a mingw64 version. Is this deliberate 
> or just an oversight?

This is deliberate. I was having problems with printf() type functions
with the 32 bit version. Upgrading mingw32 seemed to make the problem go away.
Whilst I was playing with that, I ended up spending some time upgrading to a
newer version of openssl for the 32 bit client, which was some way behind the
version that the 64 bit client is using.
Now the 32 bit client is using the very latest version of openssl.
I have spent a bit more time since the release of burp-1.1.14 bringing the 64
bit openssl up to date, and will include that with the next burp release.

> Thank you very much and best regards
> Sebastiano Pilla

Thanks once again for your good comments.