budgie-desktop VS OpenSSL

Oh yeah, no. Multiple entire desktop environments with significant popularity (Cinnamon, MATE) owe their existence today to how universally hated GNOME 3 was, and how obstinant and intolerant the GNOME developers were towards differing opinions that challenged their "vision".

In fact, the same thing is sorta playing out even right now with GTK4 and other GNOME stuff, though I think with somewhat less public spectacle but arguably even larger development efforts behind it:

https://joshuastrobl.com/2021/09/14/building-an-alternative-...

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/08/system76_developing_n...

https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha

https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/141

https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-mess-is-not-an-accident-4e...

Other editions of Solus use Papirus icons (https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/releases), and the Budgie project created its own menu icon recently: https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/blob/main/data/icons/actions/budgie-menu-symbolic.svg

Budgie might be worth checking out (I've used it on Manjaro): https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop It was extremely responsive on a 2009 laptop.

Otherwise whatever AntiX and Puppy use, which are mouse-driven UIs, are probably lower-resource than Budgie.

Budgie

This is the way: https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/wiki/Budgie-Desktop-on-Fedora

You might try asking at their official GitHub page or read thru the wiki there and see if it gives some info.

You claim that Solus doesn't have any, but the budgie desktop has over 70 different contributors. https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/graphs/contributors

I just learned that the Budgie Desktop is written in Vala.

https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop

Also, on Arch I use Pamac as a GUI for package management and it is written in Vala as well.

I have used apps for quite a long time before realizing they were written in Vala. Not great for marketing but otherwise I would consider that one of its strengths.

ENV OPENSSL_PREFIX=/opt/openssl ENV SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt WORKDIR /tmp RUN git clone --branch OpenSSL_1_0_2n https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git RUN cd openssl RUN ./config shared --prefix=$OPENSSL_PREFIX --openssldir=$OPENSSL_PREFIX/ssl RUN make RUN make install RUN rvm install 2.6.0 -C --with-openssl-dir=$OPENSSL_PREFIX ENV PATH /usr/local/rvm/bin:$PATH RUN rvm --default use ruby-2.6.0 ENV PATH /usr/local/rvm/bin:/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.6.0/bin:$PATH ENV GEM_HOME /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.6.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0

Today, April 7th, 2024, marks the 10-year anniversary since CVE-2014-0160 was published. This security vulnerability known as "Heartbleed" was a flaw in the OpenSSL cryptography software, the most popular option to implement Transport Layer Security (TLS). In more layman's terms, if you type https:// in your browser address bar, chances are high that you are interacting with OpenSSL.

At this point I pretty much understand the entire process on how the xz backdoor came to be: its execution stages, extraction from binary "test" files etc. But one thing puzzles me: how can the ifunc mechanism be used to replace something like RSA_public_decrypt? Granted this probably stems from my lack of understanding of ifunc, but I was under the impression that in order for the ifunc mechanism to work in your code, you have to explicitly mark specific function with multiple implementations with __attribute__ ((ifunc ("the_resolver_function"))). Looking at the source code of the RSA function in question, ifunc attribute isn't present:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/crypto/rsa/rsa_crpt.c#L51

So how does the backdoor actually replace the call? Does this means that the ifunc mechanism can be used to override pretty much anything on the system?

OpenSSL and Go crypt/tls has no support yet, so none of the webservers that depend on them support it. Apache, Nginx, and Caddy, they all need upstream ECH support first.

- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/7482

- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/22938

- https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63369

If I'm understanding the draft correctly, I think the webserver you're hosting your sites on would need it implemented as it requires private keys and ECH configuration. In the example of nginx since it uses openssl, openssl would need to implement it. I found an issue on their Github but it's still open: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/7482

I confirmed that the systm was on 1.1.1f with openssl version command. Hmm...... I check the openssl version in the repo with apt list... LOL package names wernt helpful. finally went to the repo pages and found that its still on 1.1.1f, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl. Meenwhile I looked up the version history on https://www.openssl.org/ and saw that 1.1.1v was released at the beginning of this month... ok. I can understand it it was out less then 30 days. I looked up when f came out, end of MARCH 2020. NEARLY 3-1/2 YEARS