Bug#687712: to_bin method returns garbage when value is zero

[Wessel Dankers]

Package: libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl
Version: 0.04-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Hi,

A command like:

	perl -MMIME::Base64 -MCrypt::OpenSSL::Bignum -we 'print encode_base64(Crypt::OpenSSL::Bignum->zero->to_bin)'

returns different garbage every time it's run. Expected result would be
the empty string. Example outputs:

	8BPYAQ==
	8DPj
	8CPJ
	8IOn
	8KMSAg==

cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.11.3-3          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8o-4squeeze13 SSL shared libraries
ii  perl                   5.10.1-17squeeze3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.1 5.10.1-17squeeze3 minimal Perl system

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