A backdoor in xz

Posted Apr 1, 2024 11:02 UTC (Mon) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)
In reply to: A backdoor in xz by mchapman
Parent article: A backdoor in xz

There will be a MIT-0 (so it can be copy/pasted with impunity) self-contained example in the documentation where the protocol is defined

A backdoor in xz

Posted Apr 2, 2024 17:16 UTC (Tue) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link]

This is now published: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/sd...

A backdoor in xz

Posted Apr 2, 2024 20:40 UTC (Tue) by himi (subscriber, #340) [Link]

A similar reference implementation in a few other common languages would be nice, too - with systemd it's gotten so easy to write system daemons in things like python that a copyable reference implementation would be quite helpful. It's simple enough that no one's bothered writing a library, but fiddly enough to do properly that rolling your own isn't always the best option.