In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:40:16 -0500, Geoff Thorpe <[EMAIL
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geoff> Well I think "plain paranoia" is better placed in locations like the
geoff> BN_DEBUG[_RAND] macros followed by the prudent use of self-tests,
geoff> valgrind, etc. When I do that "sec
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On December 2, 2003 09:35 am, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> geoff> afterwards by the memcpy(), and likewise the use of
> geoff> sizeof(b->d[0]) seems strange given the logic in the previous
> geoff> line uses sizeof(BN_ULONG) (which is better). But "unbelievably
> geoff> buggy"? How so?
>
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:52:04 -0500, Geoff Thorpe <[EMAIL
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geoff> > If we switch to use the mem* variant in bn_expand_internal(), it needs
geoff> > to be corrected. The current form is unbelievingly buggy (I didn't
geoff> > even look at it last I pla
On December 2, 2003 05:19 am, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> geoff> I understand the desire to cater for CPU pipelining with the
> geoff> 8-wise loop unrolling, but is this a better solution than just
> geoff> using memset() and letting the compiler take care of the same
> geoff> sort of th
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:27:46 -0500, Geoff Thorpe <[EMAIL
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geoff> Hi Andy (and anyone else that's interested),
geoff>
geoff> As part of the general hackathon/audit we're doing in
geoff> crypto/bn/ I once again came across the curious zeroing code in
On December 1, 2003 05:53 pm, Lev Walkin wrote:
> Geoff Thorpe wrote:
> > As part of the general hackathon/audit we're doing in crypto/bn/ I
> > once again came across the curious zeroing code in bn_expand2, only
> > this time I figured it was high time for me to actually ask you about
> > it. :-)
Geoff Thorpe wrote:
Hi Andy (and anyone else that's interested),
As part of the general hackathon/audit we're doing in crypto/bn/ I once
again came across the curious zeroing code in bn_expand2, only this time
I figured it was high time for me to actually ask you about it. :-)
I understand the
