On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:24:47AM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:

>>   BN_mod_exp(r,a,p,m,ctx) should not be called with r == p.

> If it shouldn't then shouldn't it test for that condition and return an
> error (or die?).

Actually it probably should be changed so that it can handle this, but
since I was tracking down a bug I didn't want to take any risk and
just avoided the risky call.


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