On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> djm> This violates the "principle of least suprise". The -rand parameter
> djm> should either stop reading after a sufficient number of bytes or be
> djm> properly documented in gendsa.1.
>
> Hmm, define "sufficient". In OpenSSL, it's "whatever the user wants
> to throw at me, I'll eat until it stops". /dev/urandom hardly ever
> stops :-)...
Data greater than md_rand.c's STATE_SIZE is going to be wasted.
-d
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