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bug #10273: 7 bit ascii problem in interface

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sun 05 Sep 2004 07:20:42 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Invalid
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None
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Wed 21 Oct 2009 04:19:15 PM UTC, comment #5: 

It hasn't been so far.  It seems like timeseal hasn't been updated for so long that nobody at FICS considers himself responsible for updating it anymore, even though I sent them a patch.  I'll do some more followup on that, though.

Tim Mann <mann>
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Wed 21 Oct 2009 11:57:37 AM UTC, comment #4: 

I assume the talk to FICS wasn't successful, or am I wrong?

Anonymous
Sat 03 Oct 2009 03:32:18 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Although timeseal is closed source, I have an old copy of the source under an informal NDA.  I took a look at it tonight, and this is definitely a bug in timeseal.  In short, if you try to send a character greater than 0x7f through timeseal, it corrupts the encrypted data and the FICS server closes your connection because it got something that it can't decrypt.

It would require changes on both the timeseal side and the server side to be able to accept characters outside the 7-bit range.  I'll talk to the FICS people about getting a timeseal that throws away those characters instead of barfing on them, though.

Tim Mann <mann>
Group administrator
Thu 17 Sep 2009 05:08:20 PM UTC, comment #2: 

timeseal is a separate closed-source program provided by FICS.  You should ask them to fix it.  The "someone at FICS" you talked to is mistaken.

I just downloaded the latest versions of timeseal for Linux from the freechess.org web site (both 32-bit and 64-bit), and they both still have this problem.

If you are using timeseal with WinBoard on Windows, it's the same program as timeseal for Linux, just recompiled for Windows.  So it has the same problem.

Tim Mann <mann>
Group administrator
Thu 17 Sep 2009 01:37:40 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This seems to be a timeseal crash!

Anonymous
Sun 05 Sep 2004 07:20:42 PM UTC, original submission:  

If I accidently type an 8-bit ascii code in the interface to FICS (for instance "ยจ") the connection is closed. I suspected this to be a FICS issue, but someone at FICS said otherwise. If the problem is within xboard, perhaps it would be wise to filter out the 8-bit characters (or at least have an option for it in the settings menu)?

Anonymous

 

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