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
