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If your system hasn’t been upgraded to 64-bit types by 2038, you’d deserve your overflow bug
Let's just nake it 128-Bit so it's not our problem anymore.
Hell, let's make it 256-Bit because it sounds like AES256
64 bits is already enough not to overflow for 292 billion years. That’s 21 times longer than the estimated age of the universe.