On 5/21/2019 10:15 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
[snip]Can someone please explain what is gained by using a floating point type here? Is it really a relevant use case that entropy is fed from an external source to OpenSSL such that truncating the amount to a whole number of bits would cause significant lossage? (Admittedly, it could be relevant if the individual randomness bit counts were in the (0, 1) interval, both boundaries exclusive.) Using floating point for randomness representation is a problem for environments that prefer to avoid floating point altogether, such as edk2 ("UEFI") firmware
I agree, and I reported this back in 2016. We also have an environment that does not have floating point.
