1994-09-16 - Re: if this is RC4

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
Message Hash: 37b25b85da409955d95b03ce7c7885893a689e3f59f98301100bbed3e7592834
Message ID: <9409161457.AA06229@snark.imsi.com>
Reply To: <199409161454.HAA25139@netcom10.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-09-16 14:57:20 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 07:57:20 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 07:57:20 PDT
To: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
Subject: Re: if this is RC4
In-Reply-To: <199409161454.HAA25139@netcom10.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <9409161457.AA06229@snark.imsi.com>
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James A. Donald says:
> Perry E. Metzger writes
> > One possibility is that the author may have simply decompiled the
> > original code...
> 
> Decompilation would not preserve the original style.

Of course it would. If a symbol table was present, you'd even end up
with the same variable names.

> Is "decompilation" actually the word you had in mind?

Yes.

.pm

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• 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:59:51 PDT) - if this is RC4 - Carl Ellison <cme@tis.com>
  • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 12:06:52 PDT) - Re: if this is RC4 - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
    • 1994-09-16 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 18:25:33 PDT) - Re: if this is RC4 - “Ian Farquhar” <ianf@wiley.sydney.sgi.com>
      • 1994-09-16 (Fri, 16 Sep 94 06:18:41 PDT) - Re: if this is RC4 - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
        • 1994-09-16 (Fri, 16 Sep 94 07:55:18 PDT) - Re: if this is RC4 - jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
          • 1994-09-16 (Fri, 16 Sep 94 07:57:20 PDT) - Re: if this is RC4 - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
          • 1994-09-19 (Sun, 18 Sep 94 22:04:52 PDT) - Re: if this is RC4 - “Ian Farquhar” <ianf@wiley.sydney.sgi.com>
        • 1994-09-17 (Sat, 17 Sep 94 06:25:13 PDT) - Re: if this is RC4 - rarachel@prism.poly.edu (Arsen Ray Arachelian)
          • 1994-09-17 (Sat, 17 Sep 94 09:44:38 PDT) - Re: if this is RC4 - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>