if this is RC4

James A. Donald jamesd at netcom.com
Fri Sep 16 07:55:18 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.

Many people use this style.

Suspicious, but no fingerprint.

Perry E. Metzger writes
> One possibility is that the author may have simply decompiled the
> original code...

Decompilation would not preserve the original style.

Is "decompilation" actually the word you had in mind?


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