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Comment by zaroth

7 years ago

The Bugzilla report seemed to indicate that AMD was returning an error code, because OpenSSL was failing to generate a key, not generating a bad key?

Why would OpenSSL fail visibly if the API was returning success but with non-random data?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150286

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int_19h  7 years ago

If you look closely at one of the error messages, it says "too many iterations", in what looks like a random generator. I wonder if at some point it has to iterate to get a number different from another one, and it just gets an endless stream of identical values?

  • zaroth  7 years ago

    I can’t imagine the code is checking the returned value for uniqueness after seeing a SUCCESS code, and iterating in the hopes that becomes less true.

    That would be quite something to read the comment on;

    // Here we check to be sure the Earth is not flat

    ...

    // Seeing that the Earth is indeed flat, we will iterate in this absurdity some more in the hopes it rounds out eventually