7 Jan
2016
7 Jan
'16
9:05 a.m.
Tim Ruehsen tim.ruehsen@gmx.de writes:
But what's wrong with providing a larger buffer than needed ?
I don't think about it as the size of the provided buffer, but as the requested size of the digest (intended for the usecase of truncated digests). And it's not defined how to produce a 20-byte md5 digest. If
md5_digest(&md5, 20, digest);
were allowed, what should it do? Write 16 bytes, and leave the remaining 4 bytes untouched?
Some admins have their jobs due to 'stop-by-assertion' software - at least that is good thing about assertions ;)
I suspect that 'continue-with-silent-data-corruption' software would give them even more work...
Regards, /Niels
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