On Oct 23, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Vladimir Zatsepin <vladimir.zatse...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does somebody know how OPENSSL_cleanse() works? > I don't understand what this [17, 63, 0xF] values means. Why such values were > chosen?
I think it's a simplistic random number generator, like a linear congruential generator- it's trying to fill the buffer with random-looking data. I'm not sure why it's doing that instead of simply filling with a constant value, though. (And if super-low-quality random numbers are sufficient/desired here, why not just call rand() ?) The code starting from memchr() is particularly odd. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
