Rough edge to clean up
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Jan 31 06:46:38 UTC 2017
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
>
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > There are three uses in libntp/macencrypt.c. Two of them are MAC
> > computations that do require crypto security. You found the third, which
> > doesn't. The flag seems to be intended to tag hashes that don't require
> > crypto security, so we seem to be OK so far.
>
> If we need crypto security someplace in the package, why not take advantage
> of it some other place?
>
> My suggestion would be to just delete those 4 lines.
I am wary of that until I know what the flag is doing.
I have not gotten us this far by being careless about modifying code I
don't understand, and I'm not going to start now.
Instead, I'll research that flag.
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