On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote:
> In article
> <Xine.LNX.4.44.0310292221320.23405-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Wed,
> 29 Oct 2003 22:22:50 -0500 (EST)), James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> says:
>
> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I would just disallow name == NULL,
> > > well, what algorithm do you expect?
> >
> > Good question. It seems to me to be a bug in the calling code if it is
> > trying to look up nothing -- I'd rather not paper that over.
>
> Do you mean that we need to fix the caller?
Yes.
>
> Well, people may want to get just any algorithm.
> In such case,
> - crypto allows name == NULL, and return any algorithm
> (for example, an algorithm that we see first.)
> - caller may filter name == NULL case if it is ambiguous in their context.
I think that could be dangerous, including if calling with null is a
bug, and they get an inappropriate algorithm. An incorrect algorithm type
could also be returned (e.g. digest instead of a cipher).
- James
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