• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Jul 27 2008
• Sean Kelly <sean invisibleduck.org> Jul 28 2008
• Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> Aug 11 2008

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Another little story for people that think the multi-precision integers are
mostly good for cryptography:
http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=614&Itemid=

Bye,
bearophile

Sean Kelly <sean invisibleduck.org> writes:

bearophile wrote:
 Another little story for people that think the multi-precision integers are
mostly good for cryptography:
 http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=614&Itemid=


Avoiding computation overflow is never a bad thing :)


Sean

Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> writes:

bearophile wrote:
 Another little story for people that think the multi-precision integers are
mostly good for cryptography:
 http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=614&Itemid=
 
 Bye,
 bearophile


That's what happens when people use "undefined" behavior as an ambiguous 
expression that can mean both "illegal" behavior, and "unspecified in 
some aspects but valid" behavior.
Illegal behavior should be called illegal behavior, period. 
(http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d/2008-April/036814.html)


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Bruno Medeiros - Software Developer, MSc. in CS/E graduate
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