Thread sanitiser problems

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Tue Jul 30 10:43:45 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:41:16PM +0200, Matthias St. Pierre wrote:
> On 30.07.19 11:59, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:42:33PM +1000, Dr Paul Dale wrote:
> > > Overly simplified, the problem boils down to the CTR DRBG needing an AES CTR cipher context to work.  When creating the former, a recursive call is made to get the latter.
> > I'm not sure what you mean with "CTR" both times.
> > 
> > Are you saying that an AES requires a DRBG now?
> > 
> 
> No. Pauli simply meant that the CTR DRBG utilizes an EVP_CIPHER_CTX for its internal implementation.

I currently fail to see how that's a problem, unless that
EVP_CIPHER_CTX tries to use a DRBG.


Kurt



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