From: Andy Brown <asb@nexor.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 03:15:19 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "S1" encryption system
In-Reply-To: <199508100443.EAA00611@orchard.medford.ma.us>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950810110954.4480E-100000@eagle.nexor.co.uk>
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On Thu, 10 Aug 1995, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
 
> It looks very much like the sort of typo you would get from a
> mistranslation from assembly language if the target architecture had a
> *4-bit* processor. (This is also consistant with the "<<4"'s which
> show up in several places in the code).

I'll back up the disassembly theory.  I've done it myself once when I 
lost some of my own source code from years previous and had to get out 
the dissassembler.  Very painful work which resulted in a first set of 
source much like the "S1" sample posted here.  Only difference was that I 
went back over the "first draft" after verifying it and cleaned it up 
somewhat.

The poster either does not know 'C' or thinks that a cleanup will reveal 
his/her style.


- Andy

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