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



On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 08:35:51PM +0100, Kurt Siegl wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yup.  Kurt, do you want me to give you a copy of the math functions that
the U.S. RES-RSA uses?

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