1996-03-20 - Re: IPG - newest release of the ABC Encryption Algorithms (fwd)
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From: Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>
To: John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>
Message Hash: 2cad42035af029f6ea1460fec5cf90d204767431762f91ac9b5d13433ae5b2cf
Message ID: <314F0DB1.61FE@tivoli.com>
Reply To: <2.2.32.19960319175044.00c7bab8@mail.software.net>
UTC Datetime: 1996-03-20 01:27:35 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:27:35 +0800
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From: Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:27:35 +0800
To: John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>
Subject: Re: IPG - newest release of the ABC Encryption Algorithms (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960319175044.00c7bab8@mail.software.net>
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John Pettitt wrote:
> /* the arrays b,c are filled in from tables of smallish primes supplied
> by IPG using 'random' numbers supplied by IPG to select the primes (and the
> order of same). since all the values are > 8 bits I've assumed a,b,c = int.
> a[] is filled with 13568 + an 8 bit 'random' number. (13568 = 0x3500 which
> gets ANDed with the seed value)
> */
One tangerine-flavord Starburst to the first cypherpunk who can give
a rough estimate for the results of the sub-expression:
(random() & 0xff) & 0x3500
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- 1996-03-20 (Wed, 20 Mar 1996 16:26:26 +0800) - Re: IPG - newest release of the ABC Encryption Algorithms (fwd) - John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>
- 1996-03-20 (Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:27:35 +0800) - Re: IPG - newest release of the ABC Encryption Algorithms (fwd) - Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>
- 1996-03-20 (Wed, 20 Mar 1996 16:20:45 +0800) - Re: IPG - newest release of the ABC Encryption Algorithms (fwd) - cmca@alpha.c2.org (Chris McAuliffe)
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- 1996-03-20 (Thu, 21 Mar 1996 05:54:01 +0800) - Re: IPG - newest release of the ABC Encryption Algorithms (fwd) - Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- 1996-03-20 (Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:27:35 +0800) - Re: IPG - newest release of the ABC Encryption Algorithms (fwd) - Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>