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| author | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2011-01-23 20:17:10 +0000 |
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| committer | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2011-01-23 20:17:10 +0000 |
| commit | 1b639dab951fb73d5031aa0c1afb13e8480d1dae (patch) | |
| tree | 4e13a4d1e4c609bd01d0bf5d65c6a8acdc3d0c50 /openssl/crypto/rand/md_rand.c | |
| parent | 51181fb7f4d135d214974bb6611d51f21475eec8 (diff) | |
| parent | b680cf39ed5bc37e0eb7eb86ad8599bf92df3f2b (diff) | |
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svn merge ^/branches/released .
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| -rw-r--r-- | openssl/crypto/rand/md_rand.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/openssl/crypto/rand/md_rand.c b/openssl/crypto/rand/md_rand.c index 88088ce73..b2f04ff13 100644 --- a/openssl/crypto/rand/md_rand.c +++ b/openssl/crypto/rand/md_rand.c @@ -476,11 +476,14 @@ static int ssleay_rand_bytes(unsigned char *buf, int num) MD_Update(&m,(unsigned char *)&(md_c[0]),sizeof(md_c)); #ifndef PURIFY /* purify complains */ - /* DO NOT REMOVE THE FOLLOWING CALL TO MD_Update()! */ + /* The following line uses the supplied buffer as a small + * source of entropy: since this buffer is often uninitialised + * it may cause programs such as purify or valgrind to + * complain. So for those builds it is not used: the removal + * of such a small source of entropy has negligible impact on + * security. + */ MD_Update(&m,buf,j); - /* We know that line may cause programs such as - purify and valgrind to complain about use of - uninitialized data. */ #endif k=(st_idx+MD_DIGEST_LENGTH/2)-st_num; |