ports/179972: Encryption feature for devel/synergy-1.4.12 appears to be non-functional.

Jonathan lordsith49 at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 25 17:30:00 UTC 2013


>Number:         179972
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Encryption feature for devel/synergy-1.4.12 appears to be non-functional.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 25 17:30:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jonathan
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD myhost.mydomain.net 8.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE #0 r251259: Sun Jun  2 21:26:57 UTC 2013     root at bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
When defining any encryption options for the synergys daemon, the client cannot connect. The message on the client side is:
“WARNING: failed to connect to server: Protocol error from server”

When no encryption method is defined everything works as expected. 
>How-To-Repeat:
Synergy Server is FreeBSD 8.4 desktop (synergy-devel-1.4.12)
Synergy Client is Windows 7 32bit desktop (synergy-1.4.12-Windows-x86.exe)

Set up simple ~/.synergy.conf defining the two desktops.

Run daemon with following settings:
/usr/local/bin/synergys --crypto-pass MyPassWord --crypto-mode gcm

Configure Windows client with Password: MyPassWord and Mode: GCM (Galios/Counter)

The process was repeated for the other supported modes (ofb, cfb and ctr)
>Fix:


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