hardened checks for numeric arguments #334
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Given the security sensitive nature of the argon2 program, it should reject any invalid numbers in its arguments. For example, the option `-k 104u576`, which is likely just a typo and should rather be `-k 1048576`, would be taken as 104, which is far less secure than the probably intended 1048576. Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]>
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Given the security sensitive nature of the argon2 program, it should reject any
invalid numbers in its arguments.
For example, the option
-k 104u576, which is likely just a typo and shouldrather be
-k 1048576, would be taken as 104, which is far less secure than theprobably intended 1048576.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer [email protected]