[gnutls-dev] bug in _gnutls_pkcs1_rsa_encrypt
    Werner Koch 
    wk at gnupg.org
       
    Wed Aug 18 11:33:47 CEST 2004
    
    
  
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:19:51 +0200, Matthias Urlichs said:
>> k += k/128; /* better get some more */
> This line doesn't make sense, IMHO.
The idea is that when requesting K new random bytes to replace zero
bytes of the initial random string, we request a few bytes more so
that we have some spare random bytes in case the K new bytes contain
zero bytes.
Agreed, requesting just one extra byte for replacing 128 zero bytes is
too less. 
  Werner
    
    
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