#23061: crypto_rand_double() should produce all possible outputs on platforms
with
32-bit int
-------------------------------------------------+-------------------------
Reporter: teor | Owner: nickm
Type: defect | Status:
| needs_review
Priority: Medium | Milestone: Tor:
| 0.3.2.x-final
Component: Core Tor/Tor | Version: Tor:
| 0.2.2.14-alpha
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: tor-relay, security-low, privcount, | Actual Points: 0.5
031-backport, 030-backport, 029-backport, 028 |
-backport-maybe, 027-backport-maybe, 026 |
-backport-maybe, review-group-22 |
Parent ID: | Points: 0.1
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
| SponsorQ
-------------------------------------------------+-------------------------
Comment (by catalyst):
If we want more entropy than `DBL_MANT_DIG` we could look at the exponent
to decide how many bits to mask when adding the last chunk of randomness,
but of course that might not be constant time. (I'm not sure we can
assume basic floating point arithmetic will be constant time, so we might
not care.)
--
Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23061#comment:23>
Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/>
The Tor Project: anonymity online
_______________________________________________
tor-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-bugs
