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

[Kurt Siegl <007@freemail.at>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 you wrote:
>Quoting Dave Ahn (ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu):
>> 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?

They depend on arbitrary long integer arithmetic. If you write a module
which may raise an 256 bit int to the power of an other 256 bit int within
a reasonable time, we might do that ;-)

With GMP the whole RSA algoritm consists basically of 1 line, the rest is I/O.

Kurt (007)

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