Mailing List Archive: genprime

On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 12:11:29AM +0100
Two-a-Day wrote:

> gpg --gen-prime 1 10000
>
> gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:274:read_pool)
> secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/16384
> Aborted
>
> it seems to be a buffer overflow, isn't it?

No it isn't - ... this is a bug - see cipher/random.c line 274
function read_pool.

It is listed somewhere in the TODO files that it has to be replaced by
a more friendly error message.

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