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19 Aug 2025
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_the one good thing about crypto code is if it were producing wrong results you would damn well know about it, so the limit of what can be screwed up in practice is pretty low and limited to mostly side channels and protocol screwups. but we are using primitives sooooooo it's really not so important regardless18:21:45
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_it is on release branches, the only problem is with if you are using 1. lix's own packaging and 2. on a tag18:27:35
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_if we wanted to kill a dependency by using openssl in place of libsodium that sounds good to me, i am not at all fussed either way.18:28:26
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_p low on my concerns priority list in the end18:28:38
@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezarius
In reply to @aloisw:julia0815.de
Libsodium also had quality incidents in the past, like https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/ad4584d45590654b9d863ced90d2b2561d5cfbda .
hm oof indeed
18:33:53
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_however, as stated, crypto code breaks very loudly and we are not encrypting anything confidential18:34:12
@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezariusoh lol vcunat intervening in that commit in the comment area18:34:25
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_so it is very hard for them to fuck up in a way that materially affects us18:34:30
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_ ... besides that 18:34:54
@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezariusyeah, i can review a patch moving to openssl if needed18:36:34
@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezariusi doubt that openssl can fuck up ed25519 but also it's a bit frightening because i think most people using ed25519 use it via libsodium18:38:07
@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezarius https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/969 cc Kira as aloisw pointed very good reasons to perform that switch 18:42:10
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_ raitobezarius: is your epyc still available for room-heating (mass scale remote builds)? i um, have a use case for a large scale change by messing with the pytest packaging. 18:42:58
@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezariusyes it is18:43:05
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_awesome18:43:09
@commentator2.0:elia.gardenRutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to pingis it relevant for me to know what you are (planning to) doing?18:45:26
@helle:tacobelllabs.nethelle (just a stray cat girl) sweats profusely at this idea oh no jade, I am worried 18:45:54
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_ setting dontWrapPythonPrograms = true on it 18:47:15
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_globally18:47:19
@commentator2.0:elia.gardenRutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping raitobezarius: can you punch ci/pipeline for 3992? it just says "verfied -1" without any explenation and doesn't update on push 18:47:25
@emilazy:matrix.orgemily I'm pretty sure nixpkgs-review on a pytest change will rebuild most of the package set 18:47:27
@jade_:matrix.orgjade_i also think this will happen :P18:47:36
@emilazy:matrix.orgemilyI would recommend testing direct dependencies only (which will still be a billion things)18:47:37
@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezarius
In reply to @commentator2.0:elia.garden
raitobezarius: can you punch ci/pipeline for 3992? it just says "verfied -1" without any explenation and doesn't update on push
it's the ASAN flakiness
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