deblin
Dark Side of the Moon
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join:2001-09-01
Middletown, DE
| reply to BeesTea
Re: Heads Up: Debian OpenSSL RNG Vuln CVE-2008-0166
Thanks for the info.
Just stumbled upon this. Interesting point, not sure I entirely agree with it. But certainly in this case the author makes a good point. 
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Cabal
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join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA
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Usually it is bad to have any kind of dependency on uninitialised memory, but OpenSSL happens to include a rare case when its OK, or even a good idea: its randomness pool. Adding uninitialised memory to it can do no harm and might do some good, which is why we do it.
I know people hate to comment their code, but maybe intentionally using uninitialized memory would be a good opportunity for that sort of thing. 
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Steve
I'm a PC, so shut up
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join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
| said by Cabal  :I know people hate to comment their code, but maybe intentionally using uninitialized memory would be a good opportunity for that sort of thing. Funny you should mention that |
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