[PATCH] advapi32: Add magic codes to HCRYPTKEY and HCRYPTHASH.

Austin Lund austin.lund at gmail.com
Wed Aug 18 07:27:25 CDT 2010


On 18 August 2010 20:44, GOUJON Alexandre <ale.goujon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/18/2010 12:22 PM, Hans Leidekker wrote:
>>
>> They are often built from four character ascii strings to help find out
>> where the structures come from. I don't know why this one was chosen
>> but I guess you could use something like 0xA39E741E and 0xA39E741D.
>>
>
> Yep, there are some magic values at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
> FYI, MAGIC_CRYPTPROV comes from the following commit
> http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commitdiff;h=44cb0906da3dddbca1fe670e723b4d03aa3e2488
>

None of that answers the "why" question except perhaps the part about
unaligned pointer values which isn't really relevant for modern
architectures.

I'll wait for any further feedback, try something like above and
resubmit tomorrow.



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