1994-11-22 - Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
To: “Claborne, Chris” <claborne@microcosm.sandiegoca.NCR.COM>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-11-22 01:05:03 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 17:05:03 PST

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 17:05:03 PST
To: "Claborne, Chris" <claborne@microcosm.sandiegoca.NCR.COM>
Subject: Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO
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This floating point bug is only in double-precision floating-point
division.  No division is used in RSA Key Generation, RSA Encryption,
or RSA Decryption, so this bug should not cause any problems in PGP.

-derek






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