is it initialized

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 00:01 +0300, Yakov Lerner wrote:
> Array md4_buf[] is used uninitialized in line 194 lib/genrand.c
> for all I can see (function generate_random_buffer()) .
> 
> I can see possibility why this can be intentional () (... in order
> to increase  entropy of the generated output ? ... but this still
> looks weird .. no explanatory comment ... )
> 
> Is this indeed intentional ?

Yes.  I'm sure I've seen a comment above this on some versions.   It is
the kind of thing that causes valgrind no end of fun, but fortunately on
linux, we use /dev/urandom.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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