[cap-talk] Dan Bernstein's qmail security lessons paper

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 12:51 -0500, Sandro Magi wrote:
> Modular arithmetic has the same semantics as native integers. So they
> are integers, from a certain point of view.

I believe you mean to be saying that conventional register-based
fixed-point arithmetic is defined w.r.t. a ring algebra. I agree.

This is precisely why fixed-point arithmetic is NOT integer arithmetic.
Integer arithmetic is defined over an infinite field.