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Vageli

The team has been restructured as of today.  If you
did not respond to my ultimatum, you were deleted from
the team.

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Many permissions have now been revoked from members
that did not get back to me before the period that I
alotted. There will be a one week leeway period ending
on Saturday the 22nd of October. If the members that
are not accounted for do not contact me by then, the
next step is removal from the project. As much as I
regret doing such a pruning, I feel I must in order to
keep this project alive.

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Everyone has until Friday to contact me if they would
like to stay on the development team.

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Has anyone downloaded the new release binary yet?  It
was working fine for me until recently; now it crashes
and says that there were invalid memory accesses.

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Hello all -

I read that you have experienced spacing headaches.
This is usually caused by incorrect conversion between
POSIX-formatted linebreaks and DOS-formatted
linebreaks. In most CVS clients, including WinCVS,
there is an option to perform transactions with
Unix-style linefeeds. Please use it! Visual Studio is
just as happy as GCC with Unix linebreaks, and their
use guarantees no linebreak duplication.

Thanks.

- Greg

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I worked on several files today and made a new
release.  Check out the CVS to view the changes.

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I recently did a checkout and noticed that the files I
worked on were quadruple spaced?  Please keep logical
formatting guys.  If you download a file that is not
formatted correctly, please fix it.

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I changed the show_menu function today..there were a
few things there that needed fixing, as well as the
fact that all the code was on one huge line, so I
fixed that.

I also removed several files such as all of the plugin
related files as well as externs.h (it was once used
for logging but I deleted that functionality a while
back).

Keep up the good work team.

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Dear LSS members,
 I now have the power to use CryptLib and the algorithms it offers! Yes, I
can sucessfully encrypt data! Many thanks to Greg for his help with using
.DLLs and the linking process in general.
 I still have some problems decrypting data (part of it, not all :), but
I've dealt with these issues before and it usually has to do with missing
padding, and the data not being a multiple of the block size used by the
cipher and things like that. I'll work it out...
 Anyway, I will continue learning the ins and outs of CryptLib (it seems it
can actually be used in Layers, from abstract "data envelopes" to the
cryptographic algorithms level), and maybe at the same time try using
Crypto++ to make a solid comparison between the two.
 That's about it. Just thought it might boost the morale :)
 Take care,
Alex

Hi,
 I will see to the instruction and will take care of completing the task as
early as possible. I have made some changes and have comitted them through
CVS. Please take a look and deliver some feedbacks. Rest after I do some
more work...
 Amar

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> From: Vageli Mouzakitis <com...@ya...>
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> Subject: [Logic-security-developers] Cleaning Up Code
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> The following is a list of objectives that should be
> met if you are "cleaning up the code".
>
> -removal of plugin system (being taken care of)
> -encapsulation of code into classes
> -encapsulation into seperate programs (I no longer
> htink this is a necessity..comments?)
> -commenting code
> -namespaces?
> -instead of getting rid of the includes.h file, why
> don't we organize it with namespaces?
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> -----fixing code to conform with the rules outlined in
> the programming conventions document
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> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:53:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Greg Toombs <gre...@ya...>
> Subject: Re: [Logic-security-developers] Cleaning Up Code
> To: Vageli Mouzakitis <com...@ya...>,
> log...@li...
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> The reason we're getting rid of a single include file
> is to clarify dependencies. Sure, you can use
> namespace if you want (although I doubt it's
> necessary), but it's very important that we separate
> functionality sets into distinct include files so that
> a module only needs to declare the functionality that
> it *needs.*
>
> Separate programs aren't that important right now,
> although we could do that some time. Ideally, once our
> source code is correctly organized, a transition to
> separate programs would be a trivial matter.
>
> - Greg
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>
> --- Vageli Mouzakitis <com...@ya...>
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> > The following is a list of objectives that should be
> > met if you are "cleaning up the code".
> >
> > -removal of plugin system (being taken care of)
> > -encapsulation of code into classes
> > -encapsulation into seperate programs (I no longer
> > htink this is a necessity..comments?)
> > -commenting code
> > -namespaces?
> > -instead of getting rid of the includes.h file, why
> > don't we organize it with namespaces?
> >
> > -----fixing code to conform with the rules outlined
> > in
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This mail is from Amar Gautam [CapC]

The reason we're getting rid of a single include file
is to clarify dependencies. Sure, you can use
namespace if you want (although I doubt it's
necessary), but it's very important that we separate
functionality sets into distinct include files so that
a module only needs to declare the functionality that
it *needs.*

Separate programs aren't that important right now,
although we could do that some time. Ideally, once our
source code is correctly organized, a transition to
separate programs would be a trivial matter.

- Greg

--- Vageli Mouzakitis <com...@ya...>
wrote:

> The following is a list of objectives that should be
> met if you are "cleaning up the code".
> 
> -removal of plugin system (being taken care of)
> -encapsulation of code into classes
> -encapsulation into seperate programs (I no longer
> htink this is a necessity..comments?)
> -commenting code
> -namespaces?
>  -instead of getting rid of the includes.h file, why
> don't we organize it with namespaces?
> 
> -----fixing code to conform with the rules outlined
> in
> the programming conventions document
> 
> --
> Vageli Mouzakitis

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The following is a list of objectives that should be
met if you are "cleaning up the code".

-removal of plugin system (being taken care of)
-encapsulation of code into classes
-encapsulation into seperate programs (I no longer
htink this is a necessity..comments?)
-commenting code
-namespaces?
 -instead of getting rid of the includes.h file, why
don't we organize it with namespaces?

-----fixing code to conform with the rules outlined in
the programming conventions document

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Hi all...!,
 This is a major change that I wish will be accepted. In my view the plugin=
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section of the project had been useless and was not of importance anymore.=
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If required can be put up later. This requirement should be when someone=20
from the developers list is interested in developing plugins for the=20
project. So finally I thought of removing anything related to the plugin=20
section of the project. This was permitted by Vageli. So made some changes=
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and have comitted it to the CVS. Please look into it. If there is something=
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like some code related to plugin has been by mistake left out, please clean=
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up that. I am looking after the job of *Cleaning of the code*. I will keep=
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it up.=20
 I also want to move towards making a GUI for this project. Anyone can, if=
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interested, can guide me further for this.
 Good Luck !
 Amar
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Hi Vageli,
 I am back. My exams are over and I am going through the codes. The basic=
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Job that I had was *Clean up the code*. I want some instruction on this.=20
Shall I remove the plugin part from the project as it seems obsolete.=20
 Regards,
 Amar

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This mail is from Amar Gautam [CapC]

A two week deadline has now started.  Project members
will have one week to prove their worth to the team in
order to stay on.  If you have school or something of
a similar nature which is preventing you from working
on the project at the moment, tell me and we can work
something out.  The following members are excluded
from the deadline by having personally proved their
worth to me:

Alexander
Greg
Matt

I wish everyone's name could be there but that doesn't
seem to be the case.  I know you have lives but there
doesn't seem to be any work done.

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--- Alexander Batzios <ba...@gm...> wrote:

Hello, Alexander.

Of course I will look at your project files. I will
get back to you tonight.

Cheers,

Greg

> Hi Greg,
>  After reading some material from Petzold's and
> Richter's books about Win32 
> programming, I think that my current Compiler and
> Linker settings are 
> correct for the libraries.
>  However, I can't seem to find how to resolve the
> unresolved externals. I 
> did try some things I found in the VS documentation
> but they didn't work. So 
> while I'm trying to gain some better understanding
> about DLL exports, could 
> you take a look at my current source? You'll need to
> recompile cryptlib (I 
> didn't include the binaries - I used the default
> settings to compile them 
> anyway) and CryptoTest (which is my App trying to
> run cryptlib). I've also 
> included the CryptLib manual just in case (although
> it doesn't say anything 
> particularly useful about installation).
>  If you could take a look, I'd sure appreciate it!
>  Thanks,
> Alex

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I have not noticed any work getting done recently on
the project (no code and no web development).  I think
that I should just keep myself and Matt on the team
and delete everyone else because things moved A LOT
quicker when I was working alone.  I understand that
people have school and work and whatnot, but you
hsouldn't join a project unless you're willing to make
a commitment.

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Hello, Alex.

The easiest thing to do is to link statically to
.LIBs. It requires less code, and the executable does
not need to ship with the LIBs, unlike DLLs.

To link the LIBs statically, put them in the same
directory as your MSVC project file. Then, link to
them explicitly using the linker settings under
project properties.

If you have compiled the libraries yourself, ensure
that your symbol export settings are correct. Many
things can go wrong at this stage.

Once you have included the proper header files in the
project that depends upon the library, it should
compile fine. If unresolved externals still happen in
the link phase, send me a RAR of your entire source
tree.

Good luck!

- Greg

--- Alexander Batzios <ba...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>  I've finished a couple of Win32 tutorials, so now I
> know the basic stuff of 
> creating windows, controls and handling events. I am
> pretty comfortable in 
> that I can figure out the rest on my own. So I would
> like to declare myself 
> available to help out with the GUI and ready to be
> assigned a feature if 
> there is currently some work being done...
>  Also, I've been researching the cryptography
> library issues. I find that 
> Cryptlib provides a higher level of abstraction than
> Crypto++. Moreover, it 
> seems that every new release of Crypto++ has some
> significant changes that 
> would require some re-writting, which I don't think
> Cryptlib does. On the 
> other hand, for some reason I cannot possibly
> comprehend, it seems that more 
> people use Crypto++ than Cryptlib. In terms of
> licence agreements, they are 
> pretty much the same, and we can use them or parts
> of their source code. And 
> I think Cryptlib is available (in that it provides
> wrappers & stuff) for 
> nearly every OS and a large selection of languages.
>  Anyway, the thing is that for the last few days
> I've been trying to run 
> some code that uses these two libs but I'm not able
> to! I get a LNK2019 
> error for CryptLib and for Crypto++ I get errors
> about unknown certain 
> methods and identifiers that exist in Crypto++
> (.e.g. SHA256, which is a 
> class, is seen as an unknown identifier). 
>  I've searched on the net and on a few books I have
> about .NET but I have 
> but haven't been able to figure it out. I have a
> feeling that I'm doing 
> something wrong importing the libraries and
> directories. In Visual C++ .NET, 
> after creating a Win32 project and built a basic
> gui, I went to project 
> properties and tried to put the directory of
> Crypto++ or Cryptlib wherever 
> it would fit :) I did the same with the .LIB files.
> Even copied them to 
> where VC++ keeps it's libs, and again, put their
> names in every place of 
> project properties->Linker I could! Probably not
> best approach, judging by 
> the results. 
>  So if you could perhaps help a Java programmer
> migrate to Windows by giving 
> me some very basic pointers on the steps someone
> needs to take, in order to 
> use external libraries in VC++.NET, I'd appreciate
> it! Both of Crypto++ and 
> Cryptlib create a pair of .LIB and .DLL when
> compiled, and have a couple of 
> .h files I need to include. 
>  Thanks,
> Alex

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As of now, Matt is the official head of the Linux
porting effort.  All developers interested in the port
(including those who have already responded on the
forums) should email him.  If you have a particular
part of the project which you wish to port, that too
should be mentioned in the email.

Good luck to all, and by all means, just because you
are working on the Linux port does not mean that you
shouldn't contribute to the Windows version (Greg, for
example is developing for linux on windows, which
means he's keeping the code highly portable).

Any questions about the porting should sent to Matt (zx...@us...).

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Hello to logic-sec developers.

I worked on the project a lot today, but due to its
structure, it's extremely frustrating to work on. I
narrowed the build errors down from over 300 to less
than 100, but it's still not complete. And, as you can
see in my forum post, none of those changes were
committed.

From this point on, I will lend advice to project
developers and will remain on the developer team, but
will not actively code for the project. I will leave
the following as an excercise to the other
developers-in-learning.

- Do not use system() calls. They are Windows-specific
and will not port.

- Do not create secret, undocumented back doors.

- Always use UNIX file encoding.

- Do not implement your own encryption and
pseudo-random-number generation. Instead, you could
try coding for OpenSSL's library.

- Do not include all functions and classes from one
header file. Instead, so that dependencies are more
clear, create an invididual header/module pair for
each associated set of functionality (not each
individual function), and then perform individual
#includes.

- You may completely discard the ASCII reverse module,
the notepad module, and all other modules which do not
specifically contribute to the useful functionality of
the project.

- You may discard plugin functionality, as it is
rather superfluous and will likely never actually be
used.

- You may discard the menu-driven interface
completely, relying instead on command-line switches.

- It is a bad idea to mix iostream calls and stdio
calls, such as getch(). This can often corrupt the
stream buffer and produce undesireable results. Once
the menu-driven interface is discarded, this will not
be an issue.

I am free to field any questions you may have.

- Greg Toombs

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That is, of course, provided that you don't mind not using a GUI.
Honestly, I think the command line version is clearer, and you'll gain
a better understanding of how CVS works, which will be useful on other
projects. When I used to develop things in windows, I used WinCVS I
believe - because I found Tortoise hid too many things, and didn't
allow me to easily accomplish what I wished to do. WinCVS was slightly
better.<br>
<br>
--Matt<br>
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Greg Toombs wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid...@we..."
 type="cite">
  <div>Hello, Amar.</div>
  <div>&nbsp;</div>
  <div>I have recently installed WinCVS (CVSNT), which is
command-line-based, and I have created a set of environment variables
to automate its configuration. It's very easy to use, and comes with a
preliminary readme containing some basic commands. If you're
interested, get back to me.</div>
  <div>&nbsp;</div>
  <div>- Greg<br>
  <br>
  <b><i>Amar Gautam <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ama...@gm...">&lt;ama...@gm...&gt;</a></i></b> wrote:</div>
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    <div>Hi Matt,</div>
    <div>&nbsp;</div>
    <div>Thanks for you considerations. I am using Windows XP and
looking for a GUI based CVS system. Vaugeli has already helped me out.
Now I am trying out TortoiseCVS. Let me see if that works. But you
please suggest me any other GUI Based CVS if any thats better than
TortoiseCVS. </div>
    <div>&nbsp;</div>
    <div>Thanks for you support,</div>
    <div>&nbsp;</div>
    <div>Amar Gautam</div>
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Hello, Amar.

I have recently installed WinCVS (CVSNT), which is command-line-based, and I have created a set of environment variables to automate its configuration. It's very easy to use, and comes with a preliminary readme containing some basic commands. If you're interested, get back to me.

- Greg

Amar Gautam <ama...@gm...> wrote:
Hi Matt,

Thanks for you considerations. I am using Windows XP and looking for a GUI based CVS system. Vaugeli has already helped me out. Now I am trying out TortoiseCVS. Let me see if that works. But you please suggest me any other GUI Based CVS if any thats better than TortoiseCVS. 

Thanks for you support,

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Hi Matt,
 Thanks for you considerations. I am using Windows XP and looking for a GUI=
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based CVS system. Vaugeli has already helped me out. Now I am trying out=20
TortoiseCVS. Let me see if that works. But you please suggest me any other=
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GUI Based CVS if any thats better than TortoiseCVS.
 Thanks for you support,
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I can help you with CVS.

Are you using Windows or Linux? Do you prefer a command line tool or a 
graphical tool for accessing the project CVS?

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