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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>
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Subject: Re: really odd problem with jar signing
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:16:40 -0800
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:10:00 -0800, Roedy Green
<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:30:20 +0000 (UTC), Andreas Leitgeb
><avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
>someone who said :
>
>>> Murphy could be after you. The digest comes out 0. :-)
>>
>>It took me a second read to grasp what you mean.
>
>That was intended as a joke. The odds of the SHA coming out 0 are
>vanishingly small.  Add to that the odds of code treating 0 as a
>special case... If that were the actual trouble, it would be evidence
>for the existence of supernatural maliciousness.

     Well, that explains C then:

          #include <stdio.h>
          ...
             int SpecialCaseWhenZero;
          ...
             SpecialCaseWhenZero=0;
          ...
             if (SpecialCaseWhenZero)
                /* does not print so no friend for Roedy */
                printf("Hey, Roedy!");

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko