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nikbackm
4403 days ago
Seems to me they relied on the uninitialized memory of a stack variable as a partial source of randomness for key generation.
Initializing the variable with 0 removed that part.
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quasque
4403 days ago
Your explanation makes sense. Though I'm still curious as to when this happened and what the impact was.
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