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Message-ID: <nn4lamm60w.fsf@armitage.lysator.liu.se>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 11:31:27 +0100
From: nisse@...ator.liu.se (Niels Möller)
To: tg@...lib.org (Torbjörn Granlund)
Cc: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>,  oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,  gmp-bugs@...lib.org
Subject: Re: Asserts considered harmful (or GMP spills its sensitive information)

tg@...lib.org (Torbjörn Granlund) writes:

> Let's move on.  No bug to be found here.

Just FYI: There was a bug in Nettle's test code, a line

  assert (mpz_invert(key->d, pub->e, phi));

Obviously not working with -DNDEBUG. Fix in commit
https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/73d3c6d5586cc0fd81eab081078144d621de07b4

Regards,
/Niels

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