Irssi SILC Client & Irssi backdoor issues (was silc-0.91 client)

[Pekka R. <pri...@ik...>]

:   Is irssi supposed to be in the source of the silc-client-0.91
: tarball? Isn't this the irc client that was reported as backdoored?
: I was planning to try to compile silc on OpenBSD 3.0 however wanted
: to check first as well as see if there was any ./configure issues.
:

Last week the Irssi IRC client (from http://irssi.org) was reported to
have a backdoor in the configure script which can compromise your system.
This backdoor does not, and have not in any stage affected the Irssi SILC
client, which uses parts from the original Irssi client.  All code that is
taken from the irssi.org CVS are always diffed by myself before they are
merged into silcnet.org CVS repository.  This has been the standard way to
merge code from outside projects, and will remain so in the future as
well.  Furthermore, the irssi.org's CVS was reported to not have been
affected by this backdoor.

All SILC packages, including binary packages were checked and confirmed
when thisbackdoor was found and none of them was found to be affected by
the backdoor.

In short, this backdoor does not affect any of the SILC packages that
have code from irssi.org (silc-client and silc-toolkit).

	Pekka
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 Pekka Riikonen                                 priikone at silcnet.org
 Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC)       http://silcnet.org/