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Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO




On Mon, 21 Nov 1994, Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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.

Some time ago I checked with Mr. Z as to whether PGP was integer
arithmetic and was told yes.  This seems to confirm the above.


-NetSurfer

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