Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2131] gmp vs mp

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:31:41PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Quoting Dave Ahn (ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu):
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:09:35PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > > >From an email earlier today from James, it looks like the PGP-RSA using the
> > > non-gmp2 stuff by default?
> > > 
> > > Can we dump plain mp and just support gmp?
> > 
> > Personally, I'm in favor of dumping both MP and GMP altogether.  That's two
> > less dependencies that the server would require.  Not everyone has MP or GMP
> > installed, and GMP 2.x isn't even supported on some systems.
> 
> Then re-write the rsa_util.c fuctions? I thought rsa depended on a mp library?

No, this is what I pointed out in one of my earlier messages.  By default,
the Vanilla server is setup to use rsa_util.c, not rsa_utilmp.c.  In the
U.S. version of RES-RSA, rsa_util.c has custom math functions that do not
use MP or GMP.  In the European version of PGP-RSA, rsa_util.c uses MP and
GMP, and there is no file called rsa_utilmp.c.

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