FW: [Razor-users] Announce: razor-agents 2.67

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

razor-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> I have released version 2.67 of razor-agents on sourceforge.
> The version released yesterday (2.66), has a bug that
> manifests in terms of disabling the Whiplash engine. If you
> are running 2.66, please upgrade immediately.
>
> Here's a link to the tarball:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/razor/razor-agents-2.67.tar
> .gz?download
>
> Change log:
>
> 2.67 (December 03, 2004)
>
> - This is a patch release that fixes a bug in the Whiplash
>   signature scheme. The bug was in the new code added to support
>   canonicalization of domains. It caused the signature algorithm
>   to generate no signatures on valid content.
>
> 2.66 (December 02, 2004)
>
> - Introduced support for country domain canonicalization in the
>   Whiplash signature scheme. This means domains like foo.co.uk
>   would be extracted correctly by Whiplash. This change affords
>   a considerable improvement in accuracy.
>
> - Modified the revocation logic to do signature-only
>   communications with the server. All versions of razor-agents
>   prior to this sent the entire message on razor-revoke, and
>   even though the backend would drop the messages after
>   computing signatures, this entailed a privacy risk. From this
>   version on razor-agents will _never_ send the contents of a
>   revoked message to the backend servers.
>
> - Fixed a bug in "se" (supported engines) computation, which was
>   broken when the "se" mask was larger than 8 bits. This would
>   sometimes disable the use of engine 4 (ehash). This fix would
>   also afford an increase in accuracy due to ehash being used
> everytime.
>
> - Fixed a bug in report by message. Version 2.61 would drop MIME
>   headers on certain spam messages which would cause the backend
>   to ignore these messages as malformed.
>
> cheers,
> vipul
>
> --
>
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>
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Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
Hosting, co-location & domains
http://www.blacknight.ie/
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