if this is RC4
Perry E. Metzger
perry at imsi.com
Fri Sep 16 06:18:41 PDT 1994
"Ian Farquhar" says:
> If it is, then the person who did it has gone to a lot of trouble to
> make the source layout and coding style very similar to the publicly
> available MD[245] sources. Compare them and you'll see what I mean.
> One of the original reasons I thought that this was a fake was the
> similarity (adds credibility), but when it was verified I began to
> think that this is, in fact, the real source from RSADSI. I don't
> think that this is a reverse engineering job, because I can't see
> any motive for anyone to put the work into making the code look so
> similar.
One possibility is that the author may have simply decompiled the
original code...
Perry
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