[tor-relays] [WARN] crypto error while checking RSA signature: padding check failed

[Nick Mathewson]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
> Occasionally (such as just now) I have seen these two errors in arm:
>
>  │ 13:21:25 [WARN] crypto error while checking RSA signature: padding
> check failed (in rsa routines:-
>  │   RSA_EAY_PUBLIC_DECRYPT)
>  │ 13:21:25 [WARN] crypto error while checking RSA signature: block
> type is not 01 (in rsa routines:-
>  │   RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1)
>
> Are they anything to worry about?
> Zenaan

Probably not.  It probably means that some bytes got corrupted on the
network, not that somebody's trying an attack.

(If somebody _were_ trying an attack, this would be a stupid one,
since it wouldn't work against any Tor software I'm aware of.)

peace,
-- 
Nick