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>
Message Hash: 5154c4643caef2692001103991a702820514785480c7c0e110d3072e080662c3
Message ID: <9411220104.AA13269@hodge-podge.MIT.EDU>
Reply To: <2ED0DE87@microcosm.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>
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
In-Reply-To: <2ED0DE87@microcosm.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>
Message-ID: <9411220104.AA13269@hodge-podge.MIT.EDU>
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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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- 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>