Documentations bugs?
Victor Stinner
victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Wed Jun 17 13:26:46 CEST 2009
Hi,
I think that gcrypt documentation contains some bugs.
Extract (1):
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http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gcrypt/Controlling-the-library.html
GCRYCTL_USE_SECURE_RNDPOOL; Arguments: none
This command tells the PRNG to store random numbers in secure memory. This
command should be run right after gcry_check_version and not later than the
command GCRYCTL_INIT_SECMEM. Note that in FIPS mode the secure memory is
always used.
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Does it mean that GCRYCTL_USE_SECURE_RNDPOOL can be used before
GCRYCTL_INIT_SECMEM? Because if I use both, I get this:
Oops, secure memory pool already initialized
Extract (2):
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http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gcrypt/Initializing-the-
library.html
/* Allocate a pool of 16k secure memory. This make the secure memory
available and also drops privileges where needed. */
gcry_control (GCRYCTL_INIT_SECMEM, 16384, 0);
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Does gcry_control have one or two arguments? I think that it's just one and
the doc is wrong.
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Victor Stinner
http://www.haypocalc.com/
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