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Re: [Cryptography] how reliably do audits spot backdoors?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Dec 25 14:55:37 2013
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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 17:57:18 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Benjamin Kreuter <brk7bx@virginia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20131224204814.15bc25ff@terabyte>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Reply-To: jamesd@echeque.com
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>>> So the fact that it is possible for the sum of two positive
>>> integers to be a negative number is idiomatic?
> "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
>> To me that is totally intuitive and natural,
On 2013-12-25 11:48, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> 1. You just referred to *undefined behavior* as "intuitive."
That the sum of two positive numbers is a negative number is defined
behavior, word length being defined.
>> You get the higher level language problem that the libraries are
>> slightly different on each machine, which results in nightmare
>> installations.
> Are you claiming that the situation is worse than it is in C?
Observe, that pretty much every program written in C simply installs,
and pretty much every program written in python simply does not.
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