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From:
Emiel Kollof <emiel@kollof.nl>
Subject:
Re: patch: stop login_yubikey(8) leaking OTP data to syslog
To:
Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@gmail.com>
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:15:29 +0200

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Loganaden Velvindron schreef op 2025-08-19 15:50:
>> Some of us don't really have a say in what security products our
>> employers
>> choose, and we'd like to continue using OpenBSD.

> Can you tell your employers to put pressure on the vendor to fix this 
> because
> your employer might no longer be a customer after the next budget 
> exercise ?

I would love to, but I'm just an enthusiast that has to use this 
hardware for
work, while my colleagues are happily using Linux which won't have this 
issue.

So I doubt that will have any effect. They'd just say "well just use 
Linux".

I've patched my kernel (it's a one line patch, really), and it just adds 
more
hoops for me. I doubt doing something like this (although well 
intentioned) is
not going to stop people that are not afraid to poke around in kernels. 
For new
users that expect their Yubikeys to work in OTP mode it's going to be a 
hurdle.

I sent a sendbug(1) when I encountered this at first. Expect many more 
from other
users when 7.8 rolls around when they upgrade from 7.7 where it still 
works.

Cheers,
Emiel