Comment 5 for bug 236853

The crash report comment quoted here and the reports i read show this probably *is* early in startup.

I think we use the hashing bits as part of the update service and it seems likely it'd be nearly the first crypto bit to be hit.

please note that i use systems where memory is often but not always scarce. It isn't legal to assume early allocs will succeed any more than it is to assume late ones will.

is there a public contract for "HASH_Create" somewhere?