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Cabal
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reply to deblin
Re: Heads Up: Debian OpenSSL RNG Vuln CVE-2008-0166

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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
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said by Cabal See Profile :

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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