On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> djm> Data greater than md_rand.c's STATE_SIZE is going to be wasted.
>
> Really? I'm may be blind, but it very much looks to me like the state
> index gets wrapped backed to 0 when it reaches STATE_SIZE, and that
> whatever values are written in the current element of state is XORed
> on the previous value. So I don't quite see what you mean with
> "waste"...
Good point - I was thinking about the case where the data is already of
high quality.
Perhaps a mechanism whereby the size of the reads can be limited?
-d
PS. did you get the ERR_error_string_n() patch I sent to the list a
couple of days back? I haven't heard any feedback...
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