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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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