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Re: IPG - newest release of the ABC Encryption Algorithms (fwd)
Chris McAuliffe ([email protected]) 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.