Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 22:46:52 -0500 From: "Garance A Drosehn" <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Steve Kargl" <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenSSL breaks factor(6) Message-ID: <92557725-6612-46ED-BA39-FCE91EF6D091@rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <20191227224212.GA61594@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20191227212530.GA61314@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20191227214717.GA61475@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20191227224212.GA61594@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On 27 Dec 2019, at 17:42, Steve Kargl wrote: > > This patch now includes a fix for hexadecimal conversion. It > simple scans the string for a hex digit in [a,...,f] and assumes > that a hexadecimal string has been entered. A string that includes > character from the decimal digits is assumed to by a decimal > representation. What if the user wants to factor a hexadecimal value which does not happen to include [a...f]? How about recognizing a prefix of '0x' as a way to indicate the value is hexadecimal? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosih@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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