[sword-devel] SWORD 1.8.0RC3

Jaak Ristioja jaak at ristioja.ee
Mon Jun 26 02:04:22 MST 2017


Overriding this setting was never possible with Sword in the first place.

On 26.06.2017 11:05, refdoc at gmx.net wrote:
> As a user I would want to be able to override this, does this patch make
> this impossible?
> 
> Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird autocorrects.
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] SWORD 1.8.0RC3
> From: Jaak Ristioja
> To: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> CC:
> 
> 
>     Sure! Verifying TLS certificates is explicitly disabled the file
> 
>     src/mgr/curlhttpt.cpp
> 
>     by the lines:
> 
>     /* Disable checking host certificate */
>     curl_easy_setopt(session, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
> 
>     I've attached a patch for Sword SVN trunk which removed these lines. For
>     the Sword++ commit, see
>     https://github.com/swordxx/swordxx/commit/49de93ca35f61601376fab0ac8689f48a76dd4d6
> 
>     J
> 
> 
>     On 26.06.2017 04:10, Greg Hellings wrote:
>     > Jaak,
>     >
>     > Can you provide a version of that patch for 1.7 (and 1.8, if there
>     is a
>     > difference)? Or point me to where it lives? I will definitely wrap
>     that
>     > into the packaging for Fedora and SuSE as it is absolutely
>     inappropriate
>     > to have SSL checking skipped at the library level without it being a
>     > very explicit step for users.
>     >
>     > If Troy won't fix this glaring security hole, it can at least be fixed
>     > by the packagers. I would encourage any Debian and/or Ubuntu users to
>     > file bugs against Sword packaging in their environments (if their
>     > maintainer isn't here) and the same for any other distribution users.
>     >
>     > --Greg
>     >
>     > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Jaak Ristioja > > wrote:
>     >
>     > Regarding TLS, I think the choice of whether to trust a self-signed
>     > certificate should explicitly be left to the user at run-time (e.g
>     like
>     > browsers do), rather than blindly accepting any (even expired?)
>     > certificates.
>     >
>     > Regarding the other fix, frontends can (and already do) handle
>     threading
>     > by themselves, but afaik even for a single-threaded process the
>     > callbacks accepted by Sword have no direct means to terminate the
>     > installation process (e.g. by return value, or via a another callback
>     > provided to the callback). So it seems that you're either saying that
>     >
>     > 1) Sword users have no means to terminate potentially long-running
>     > processes (and there's no plan to add such means), or
>     > 2) RemoteTransport::terminate() should never be called separately, but
>     > exclusively only from inside callbacks invoked by Sword.
>     >
>     > In the latter case, this should be made clear in the documentation.
>     >
>     > Blessings,
>     > J
>     >
>     > On 25.06.2017 21 :53, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>     > > We have included some of your patches in the past (thank you
>     > again), but
>     > > not these. The first is intentional. We want to work with self
>     signed
>     > > certs if necessary. Non of our content is private, only the fact
>     > that a
>     > > user might access our server and for this, we ask all our
>     frontends to
>     > > warn against this for persecuted countries. The second goes
>     > against our
>     > > policy in the library that all threading should be handled by the
>     > > client, not the library. The client should instantiate an
>     > InstallMgr in
>     > > its own thread and register threads are callbacks, if they wish to
>     > > install in the background. If we start trying to handle threading
>     > in the
>     > > library itself, it is a huge switch from current policy and
>     depends on
>     > > support for threading in all our compilers. Easy enough to just
>     > > instantiate separate SWMgr instances per thread. But thank you for
>     > offering.
>     > > Troy
>     > >
>     > > On June 25, 2017 8:33:53 PM GMT+02:00, Jaak Ristioja
>     > >
>     > > wrote:
>     > >
>     > > Hi Troy!
>     > >
>     > > It seems that no fixes from Sword++ were considered for
>     > inclusion in SVN
>     > > trunk, not even the two I explicitly proposed on this list in
>     > response
>     > > to the RC2 announcement: one fixing hangs in front ends and
>     > the other
>     > > fixing a pure security negligence which rendered SSL/TLS
>     > susceptible to
>     > > MitM attacks.
>     > >
>     > > ?!?!
>     > >
>     > > J
>     > >
>     > > On 25.06.2017 18 :51, Troy A. Griffitts
>     > wrote:
>     > >
>     > > Again, thank you to all the testers and reporters of problems
>     > > for the
>     > > previous RC and those who contributed fixes. Hopefully, this
>     > > will stand
>     > > any scrutiny and become 1.8.0. Please let me know if you have
>     > > any feedback.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > http://crosswire.org/sword/alpha/alpha/sword-1.7.903.tar.gz
>     >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > Included since last RC:
>     > >
>     > >
>     >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > >
>     > > r3482 | scribe | 2017-06-25 07:36:23 -0700 (Sun, 25 Jun 2017) |
>     > > 2 lines
>     > >
>     > > Reworked strongs and lemma filters to better support any combo
>     > > of toggle
>     > > Added osisxhtml lemma type= support for other than Greek, Hebrew
>     > > strongs
>     > >
>     >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > >
>     > > r3481 | scribe | 2017-06-25 04:45:04 -0700 (Sun, 25 Jun 2017) |
>     > > 3 lines
>     > >
>     > > moved examples/simple.cpp to examples/tasks/simpleverselookup.cpp
>     > >
>     > > also updated CMakeList.txt to build new examples
>     > >
>     >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > >
>     > > r3480 | scribe | 2017-06-25 04:44:29 -0700 (Sun, 25 Jun 2017) |
>     > > 1 line
>     > >
>     > > added listbiblebooknames example
>     > >
>     >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > >
>     > > r3479 | scribe | 2017-06-25 04:44:01 -0700 (Sun, 25 Jun 2017) |
>     > > 1 line
>     > >
>     > > added flatapi installmgr example
>     > >
>     >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > >
>     > > r3478 | refdoc | 2017-06-10 15:28:11 -0700 (Sat, 10 Jun 2017) |
>     > > 2 lines
>     > >
>     > > added Belarussian locale file
>     > >
>     > >
>     >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > >
>     > > r3477 | domcox | 2017-06-04 11:18:34 -0700 (Sun, 04 Jun 2017) |
>     > > 1 line
>     > >
>     > > French translation update (Contrib. from Cyrille)
>     > >
>     >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     >
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