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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] Make cryptoapi non-optional?
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:59:47AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > And we're safe here. The default pool size is 1024 bits, of which we
> > hash 512. I could hash even fewer, say, 480 (and this would deal with the
> > cryptoapi padding stuff nicely).
>
> Where is the pool size set to 1024 bits? I'm reading 2.5.75, and it
> looks to me like the hash is over the whole pool, of 512 bits for the
> primary and 128 bits for the secondary pool:
>
> for (i = 0, x = 0; i < r->poolinfo.poolwords; i += 16, x+=2) {
^^^^

Unfortunately, there's an ugly mix of words, bytes, and bits here (and it
was actually broken for years because of it). The input pool is 4kbits
and the output pools are 1k.

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