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From: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Git List'" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Problems with CSPRNG in wrapper.c
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:06:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003d01d94b00$16abc7a0$440356e0$@nexbridge.com> (raw)

I've hit an issue with git that has me stumped at a customer site - so I
have limited visibility on what is actually wrong. This is pretty urgent
that I resolve this.

In git/wrapper (lines 477 from :
       if (csprng_bytes(&v, sizeof(v)) < 0)
       	return error_errno("unable to get random bytes for temporary file");

First, I was not aware that csprng was a git dependency - not sure why
because we depend on OpenSSL_random that should return random bytes. Does
this still mean that there is a dependency on PRNGD, or is there another
dependency I am missing.

Should I get them to revert back to an older git version (which one)? Is a
patch needed?

Thanks,
Randall

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             reply	other threads:[~2023-02-27 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-27 23:06 rsbecker [this message]
2023-02-27 23:15 ` Problems with CSPRNG in wrapper.c Junio C Hamano
2023-02-27 23:23   ` rsbecker
2023-02-28  0:11     ` brian m. carlson
2023-02-28  0:51       ` rsbecker

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