is it initialized
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Tue Sep 18 02:46:53 GMT 2007
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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