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Re: Bug in RIPEM?

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From: Marc VanHeyningen
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:35
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Thus said darrell@cse.ucsc.edu (Darrell Long):
>I'm getting "Can't allocate memory" if I use X to paste in the text of a
>message, but it works just fine from a file.

This one I can duplicate.

It looks like the problem is that RIPEM is stopping midway through
reading the message you're pasting in with X to prompt for the
passphrase (i.e. it reads the PEM headers, then fetches the passphrase,
then reads the ciphertext.)  This seems to confuse the state of the
reading of the rest of the input stream, though I can't tell exactly how.

The place it dies is:

#Before call to ReadMessage, Username=mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu
#Can't allocate memory.

Something of a strange way to fail.  It seems to happen whenever the
message is being pasted in from another source, not just from X.
-- 
Marc VanHeyningen    mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu    MIME & RIPEM accepted


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From: Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Bug in RIPEM?
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