Crypt::RSA perl coredump on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

[Mike Friedman]

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This may not be an appropriate place for my question, but perhaps someone 
has a suggestion.

I installed the perl Crypt::RSA port the other day on my 5.4-RELEASE 
system.  When I try to run a small perl script just to generate an RSA 
keypair, I get a perl core dump.  There are a lot of prereqs that get 
installed with Crypt::RSA, so no doubt there's much opportunity for a 
problem with some library somewhere.  But I don't know where to begin 
looking.

Subsequently, I installed Crypt::DSA and I haven't had a similar problem 
with it.  So I assume it's not the Math::Pari library, which is used by 
both the RSA and DSA packages, that's causing my problem. Similarly for 
other packages that both Crypt::RSA and Crypt::DSA make use of.

I'm just throwing this out here in case someone on this list has already 
run into the same problem.  I realize this is likely not a FreeBSD problem 
at all.

I haven't tried even installing Crypt::RSA on a non-FreeBSD platform, 
precisely because it's a mess given all the dependencies.  But the FreeBSD 
port installs quite smoothly.  (I just wish the software would work!).

Thanks.

Mike

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Mike Friedman                   System and Network Security
mikef at ack.Berkeley.EDU          2484 Shattuck Avenue
1-510-642-1410                  University of California at Berkeley
http://ack.Berkeley.EDU/~mikef  http://security.berkeley.edu
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