From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/01/28
Date: 1998-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote in article
<34CE568C.55D7E23D@cl.cam.ac.uk>...
> One of the especially nice things about Ada seem to be the modular
> types. Many of the calculations in asymmetric cryptography are done
> over the integers modulo N, where N is a huge number (typically
> 1024 bits long or more).
[...]
> Which Ada95 compilers do support 1024-bit integers today and can
> do an efficient modular exponentiation over them?
> Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
> email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-27 0:00 Bignum modular types in Ada95 Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Dmitriy Anisimkov
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-07 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <EnIIvn.3zr@world.std.com>
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Mats Weber
[not found] ` <EnKEtu.KGp@world.std.com>
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
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