Bug#448775: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085)

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Jan 31 09:26:07 CET 2008


On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:20, ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org said:

> Any obvious breakage? Exim does not use any threading. I have not
> included an gcry_check_version(NULL) since I thought gcry_control()
> would fail as reliably as gcry_check_version() would, if gcrypt was

Better insert a gcry_check_version because this is the safe way to
initialize gcrypt.  The initialization is also done with most other
gcry_control calls but that is a failsafe feature.  Explicitly
initialization is better (you don't need to check the return code, just
call it.)


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner




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