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Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO

To: "Claborne, Chris" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Pentium bug and CRYPTO
From: Derek Atkins <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 20:04:29 EST
Cc: cypherpunks <[email protected]>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Nov 1994 09:49:00 PST." <[email protected]>
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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.

-derek

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