Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Slow startup delay caused by uninitialized variable...
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:04:26 -0800
arobincaron@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I cannot find the source code for gcry_rndw32_gather_random.  In the
> patched version of libgcrypt used with Wireshark 0.99.4 there is an
> uninitialized variable being checked and since it is not consistently
> set will cause the slow random bit generation code to be used instead of
> existing after getting them using CryptGenRandom.  The bad code
> reference is right after the memset done to clear out the random bits.
>  
> I would be glad to offer a patch if someone can point me to where the
> correct code for this function is.

Can you try one of the recent installers from

  http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/win32/

and see if the  problem still exists?  I updated the GNUTLS package in
the installer recently, which hopefully fixes the problem.