Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer

From: Julien TINNES
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 14:45:50 EST


Not very important but ((get_random_int() % 4096) << 4) could be optimized into get_random_int() & 0xFFF0. Because 4096 is a power of 2 you won't loose any entropy by doing & 0xFFF instead of %4096

Regards,

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