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Diffstat (limited to 'cipher/hash-common.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | cipher/hash-common.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cipher/hash-common.c b/cipher/hash-common.c index ed63a0ba..9a007e12 100644 --- a/cipher/hash-common.c +++ b/cipher/hash-common.c @@ -95,7 +95,10 @@ _gcry_hash_selftest_check_one (int algo, /* Common function to write a chunk of data to the transform function of a hash algorithm. Note that the use of the term "block" does - not imply a fixed size block. */ + not imply a fixed size block. Note that we explicitly allow to use + this function after the context has been finalized; the result does + not have any meaning but writing after finalize is sometimes + helpful to mitigate timing attacks. */ void _gcry_md_block_write (void *context, const void *inbuf_arg, size_t inlen) { |