"Claborne, Chris" <claborne@microcosm.sandiegoca.NCR.COM> writes:
Will the following error (Re Pentium Floating Point Bug Date: 15 Nov 1994) cause problems with PGP key generation or any other normal operations with PGP or other crypto. I'm not a math mathmatics nerd but I know we generally deal with big numbers.
No problems for released versions of PGP, which use only the 8086 instruction set and require neither a floating point coprocessor nor emulation. Most other crypto should be fine as well. Crypto is pretty much an integer exercise. People have been known to use floating point to do multiprecision integer arithmetic on Sparcs and large engineering mainframes which lack a complete integer instruction set, but I've never heard of anyone trying such things on an Intel processor. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd@netcom.com $ via Finger. $