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Are they using the right technology?

Posted May 28, 2012 13:25 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Are they using the right technology? by ncm
Parent article: A Tale of Two Pwnies (Part 1)

Unsigned ints don't overflow. They implement well-defined modular arithmetic. No operations on unsigned int yield undefined results.

... which, if unexpected, can be and often is a security hole. You haven't solved anything.

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