From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:05:46 +0800
To: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Subject: Re: fun with rsaref and 64-bit machines
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Message-ID: <199512271646.IAA23331@infinity.c2.org>
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	That fixes it, thanks.

> 
> sameer wrote:
> > 
> >         Does anyone know if RSAREF works on 64 bit CPUs? It seems
> > that RSAREF's NN_Mod is getting stuck in digit.c at:
> > 
> > 99         */
> > 100       while ((t[1] > 0) || ((t[1] == 0) && t[0] >= c)) {
> > 101         if ((t[0] -= c) > (MAX_NN_DIGIT - c))
> > 102           t[1]--;
> > 103         aLow++;
> > 104       }
> 
>   In global.h, UINT4 is typedef'd to be unsigned long int, which is a 64 bit
> value on the DEC alpha system.  The type UINT4 is supposed to be a 32-bit
> value.  On the DEC system you need to make that be an unsigned int, which is
> 32-bits.  I've complained to RSA before about this problem, as it bit me
> when I was porting SSLREF to the DEC machine.  They mumbled something about
> people using the pre-compiled libraries, and ignored me.  It would be
> so easy for them to just ifdef this one line...
> 
> 	--Jeff
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
> Netscape Communication Corporation
> jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
> Any opinions expressed above are mine.
> 


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