1994-11-23 - Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO
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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.COM.AU>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.COM.AU>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 94 17:09:11 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO
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On Mon, 21 Nov 1994, Mike Duvos wrote:
> Most other crypto should be fine as well. Crypto is pretty much
> an integer exercise.
I'd be horrified if a crypto implementation used floating point, with
the implied imprecision...
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- 1994-11-22 (Mon, 21 Nov 94 16:29:46 PST) - Pentium bug and CRYPTO - “Claborne, Chris” <claborne@microcosm.sandiegoca.NCR.COM>
- 1994-11-22 (Mon, 21 Nov 94 17:05:03 PST) - Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO - Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
- 1994-11-23 (Tue, 22 Nov 94 21:37:32 PST) - Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO - NetSurfer <jdwilson@gold.chem.hawaii.edu>
- 1994-11-22 (Mon, 21 Nov 94 17:08:49 PST) - Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
- 1994-11-22 (Mon, 21 Nov 94 17:39:25 PST) - Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO - mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
- 1994-11-23 (Tue, 22 Nov 94 17:09:11 PST) - Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO - Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.COM.AU>
- 1994-11-23 (Wed, 23 Nov 94 05:27:43 PST) - Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO - m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
- 1994-11-24 (Wed, 23 Nov 94 16:41:02 PST) - Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO - Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.COM.AU>
- 1994-11-22 (Mon, 21 Nov 94 17:05:03 PST) - Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO - Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>