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somatyesterday at 10:26 AM0 repliesview on HN

Apologies ahead of time as this is pure FUD, That is I don't actually know what I am talking about but had an interesting thought.

Remember the Debian weak keys kerfuffle, That was caused because the Debian package maintainer saw a warning about using uninitialized memory, fixed it, and then it turned out that uninitialized memory was a critical seed for the openssl random number generator.

Anyhow my stupid FUD thought. is there a weak-key equivalent bug that shows up now that your C compiler is memory safe?