[2982] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Can you say "fraud"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (EKR)
Wed Sep 18 17:40:19 1996
To: Dennis Boone <drb@gopher.cl.msu.edu>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, ekr@terisa-bh.terisa.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:40:09 CDT."
<9609172140.AA20193@burrow.cl.msu.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:17:43 -0700
From: EKR <ekr@terisa.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> > > The toolkit doesn't make a distinction between per-app and per-thread
> > > contexts, does it. That is, there's a single context, and the per-app
> > > parts of it are protected by locks, right?
> > Hmm.. I'm not sure what you mean.
> >
> > The general rule is that no context may be used in two operations
> > simultaneously.
>
> Right, but two threads can use two different crypto_ctx at the same time,
> correct?
Absolutely.
-Ekr
