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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 13, 2008 15:17 UTC (Tue) by jond (subscriber, #37669)
In reply to: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems by jwb
Parent article: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Only if PURIFY is defined. I'm not sure in which situations that happens, but I think it's
valgrind-related. So the binary packages being distributed are fine.


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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 13, 2008 15:50 UTC (Tue) by lambda (subscriber, #40735) [Link]

Only if PURIFY is not defined. That line was being excluded from PURIFY because it was causing warnings about uninitialized data.

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