From pssh at richardfearn.co.uk  Sun Jan  1 21:31:48 2006
From: pssh at richardfearn.co.uk (Rich Fearn)
Date: Sun Jan  1 21:31:55 2006
Subject: [pssh-users] Re: unable to import rsa or dsa key
Message-ID: <000b01c60f44$aedcb350$0102020a@home.rdf>

Hi,

I've been looking into the problem that a couple of people had back in 
June/July 2005, where they would get the message:

"Incorrect passphrase, or incorrectly formatted memo"

when trying to import a public key.

The messages can be viewed in the pssh-users archive:

http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/pssh-users/2005-June/thread.html
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/pssh-users/2005-July/thread.html

I encountered this problem too, and have managed to find the cause. A patch 
for the 2005_06_23 source code is attached that fixes the problem.

The problem is caused by pssh incorrectly dealing with private records. The 
effect is that if you select a memo, it's quite possible that pssh is 
reading the contents of an entirely different memo, which accounts for the 
"Incorrect passphrase..." message. There are three sections of code that 
contribute to the problem.

pssh always opens the memo database without the "dmModeShowSecret" flag, and 
then searches through the database using the "category" functions (such as 
DmQueryNextInCategory), meaning that private records are never retrieved 
from the database. However, elsewhere in the code, the RecordListCount 
function calls DmNumRecords to determine how many items to show in the memo 
list, thus counting *all* records in the database (including private 
records). There is therefore a mismatch between the number of records that 
the list thinks it will be displaying, and how many (non-private) records it 
will actually be able to retrieve from the database.

Two of the three changes address this. Firstly, the database is opened with 
or without the "dmModeShowSecret" flag, depending on whether private records 
should be shown/masked/hidden (set in the global Palm preferences). 
Secondly, the RecordListCount function now uses DmNumRecordsInCategory, 
which includes or excludes private records as appropriate depending on how 
the database is opened. These first two changes mean that private memos are 
only displayed in the list if private records are set to be shown in the 
global Palm preferences; and the memo list's size is now determined 
correctly.

There is also a problem in the RecordListRepopulate function, which 
determines the records to be displayed in the list. The current version of 
the code doesn't jump to the correct record before taking the next 10 items 
to display. It's a tricky problem to explain; I would be happy to provide an 
explanation if anyone is *really* interested. :-) (The symptom of this 
problem on my Palm was that the list sometimes wasn't scrolling when I 
pressed the down scroll arrow.) The third change addresses this problem.

I've managed to successfully compile a new PRC using Cygwin. I can provide 
instructions on how to set up the build environment if anyone is interested.

Richard Fearn
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From pssh at richardfearn.co.uk  Mon Jan  2 06:14:38 2006
From: pssh at richardfearn.co.uk (Rich Fearn)
Date: Mon Jan  2 06:14:40 2006
Subject: [pssh-users] Re: unable to import rsa or dsa key
Message-ID: <001301c60f8d$b8d17d20$0102020a@home.rdf>

> I've been looking into the problem that a couple of people had back in
> June/July 2005, where they would get the message:

> "Incorrect passphrase, or incorrectly formatted memo"

> when trying to import a public key.

Sorry - I forgot to mention that there is a workaround for this problem. If
your public key memo is the very first memo (when viewed in the Memo
application), you shouldn't get this problem. There are two ways of doing
this:

If you have the sort order for the Memo application set to "Alphabetic", add
a few characters to the start of the public key name (on the first line of
the memo) so that it is placed before all other memos. (Adding "000" to the
start of the memo, for example, should do this; it depends on what the other 
memos on your Palm are called.)

Alternatively, if the sort order is set to "Manual", drag the memo (while in
the Memo application) to the top of the list.

When you import the key in pssh, your public key memo should appear at the
top of the list, and you shouldn't get the error.

Richard Fearn


From rm-throwaway4 at gunlab.com.ru  Tue Jan 31 10:40:50 2006
From: rm-throwaway4 at gunlab.com.ru (Roman V. Isaev)
Date: Tue Jan 31 10:40:54 2006
Subject: [pssh-users] font files
Message-ID: <20060131154050.GL5283@isaev.ru>


	How to edit .font files in rsrc directory? Is there any tool to do it?

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 Roman V. Isaev             http://www.soprano-recorder.ru             Moscow, Russia