Comment by patmcc
7 years ago
The constants mentioned are the following:
"01234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" and "01234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
It's very possible that separate implementations of this function would use those same constants. It's not as if they're some completely arbitrary strings.
These constants should appear in most arbitrary-base-integer-to-string functions. I wouldn't say that this proves anything.
When these constants don't appear elsewhere in the source?
And what, they'd have another implementation of this function, but have a different one with their code because... reasons?
I mean, if you got "the source code" for a project at my work, you might get the raw source for Project A and then a bunch of already compiled libraries we put together for use, some of which could do similar things to existing code.
But yah it's probably from Linux, I just don't think the constants alone are a smoking gun.