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From: Marcel Logen <333200007110-0201@ybtra.de>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: [Solution] The lost key (Chris, do not read! :-)
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:14:04 +0200
Organization: Bureau Logen
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Richard Heathfield in sci.crypt:

>On 01/06/2025 08:15, Marcel Logen wrote:
>> Richard Heathfield in sci.crypt:
>>> On 01/06/2025 07:26, Marcel Logen wrote:

>>>> - the text then has only to be reversed
[...]
>Mystery solved.
>
>It turns out that my bignum library (which is little-endian) 
>doesn't bother to switch to or from big-endian before file 
>operations. In 25 years, this is the first time it's ever mattered.

Hehe. Interesting.

Marcel
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