[52523] in Cypherpunks
Re: IPG - newest release of the ABC Encryption Algorithms (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sat Mar 23 01:55:15 1996
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 07:38:34 +0100
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous)
Chris McAuliffe (cmca@alpha.c2.org) wrote:
: >One tangerine-flavord Starburst to the first cypherpunk who can give
: >a rough estimate for the results of the sub-expression:
: > (random() & 0xff) & 0x3500
:
: Well, actually, it depends on whether the bytes are treated as signed or
: unsigned, and we don't know for sure that IPG wanted them treated as
: unsigned. This means IPG either:
:
: a) can't write portable code, or
: b) really are as stupid as we are giving them credit for.
a) is obvious, since they explicitly say that they coded it in 80x86
assembler, but I wouldn't discount the possibility of b) being true also.
