Quoting Hasso Tepper <[email protected]> from ml.softs.gtk-gnutella.devel: :As I don't understand the code very well and why the size of struct FILE :is needed at all (is it really the data which is needed there?), no patch :to apply from me.
The purpose of the code is to get a much random information as possible to get an hopefully unique 160-bit value. The information in the FILE structure would yield platform-specific information, especially as it changes whilst we read from the file because each stdio has its own way of updating the structure. That is another source of entropy, but it's not completely random in that it's predictable on a given system. Since we already collect enough entropy out of the system, I've removed the problematic calls from the code in r16947. Raphael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
