infinite loop in win32 randomness gatherer

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Tue Jan 18 18:12:56 CET 2005


On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:40:15PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:03:12 -0500, Ian Goldberg said:
> 
> > slow_gatherer_windows95 walks the heap table and adds everything in it
> > to the randomness pool.  What seems to be happening is that the act of
> 
> Hmmm, I switched over to W2000 so I have not tested it for a long time.

This is actually an XP box.  slow_gatherer_windows95 is called whenever

    has_toolhelp = (platform == VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS
		    || (is_windowsNT && osvi.dwMajorVersion >= 5));

is true.

   - Ian



More information about the Gcrypt-devel mailing list