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List:       openssl-dev
Subject:    Re: Random number generator, uninitialised data and valgrind.
From:       Ulf_Möller <ulf () openssl ! org>
Date:       2006-05-01 22:34:12
Message-ID: 44568CE4.9020906 () openssl ! org
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Kurt Roeckx schrieb:
> What I currently see as best option is to actually comment out
> those 2 lines of code.  But I have no idea what effect this
> really has on the RNG.  The only effect I see is that the pool
> might receive less entropy.  But on the other hand, I'm not even
> sure how much entropy some unitialised data has.
>   
Not much. If it helps with debugging, I'm in favor of removing them. 
(However the last time I checked, valgrind reported thousands of bogus 
error messages. Has that situation gotten better?)

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