[Cryptography] how reliably do audits spot backdoors?

[James A. Donald]

>>> So the fact that it is possible for the sum of two positive
>>> integers to be a negative number is idiomatic?

 > "James A. Donald" <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
>> To me that is totally intuitive and natural,

On 2013-12-25 11:48, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> 1. You just referred to *undefined behavior* as "intuitive."

That the sum of two positive numbers is a negative number is defined 
behavior, word length being defined.

>> You get the higher level language problem that the libraries are
>> slightly different on each machine, which results in nightmare
>> installations.

> Are you claiming that the situation is worse than it is in C?

Observe, that pretty much every program written in C simply installs, 
and pretty much every program written in python simply does not.