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From:   Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
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On 8/5/2019 5:54 PM, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 16:50 +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
>> Regarding Mimi's proposal to avoid the issue by extending the PCR with
>> zeros, I think it also achieve the goal.
> 
> Roberto, removing the following code from init_digests() would be the
> equivalent to the prior code, without needing to make any other
> changes.  Let's keep it simple.  Do you want to post the patch with
> the change, or should I?

I will send the new patch.

Roberto

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