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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 10:50 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems by tialaramex
Parent article: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

`If an object that has automatic storage duration is not initialized explicitly, its value is
indeterminate' combines with a definition of undefined behaviour which includes behaviour
`upon use of... indeterminately valued objects'.

It's pretty clearly undefined.


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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 13:17 UTC (Wed) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link]

Note the "has automatic storage duration" bit in nix's quote.  This is why e.g. reading your
mmap()'d PCI device registers is not undefined.

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