From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/01/31
Date: 1998-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 34D1ED17.D788435@cl.cam.ac.uk
Besides which the package implementation can always be used: it is not
denied by providing built-in bignum support!
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Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote in article
<34D1ED17.D788435@cl.cam.ac.uk>...
> Mats Weber wrote:
> >
> > > If we have arbitrary length string operations, arbitrary
> > > length integer operations shouldn't be that much additional
> > > hazzle, and the popularity that arithmetic with huge numbers
> > > has gained through the numerous asymmetric cryptoalgorithms
> > > out there (RSA, Diffie-Hellman, ElGamal, DSS, all the new
> > > elliptic curve stuff, etc.) surely justifies the investment.
> >
> > Yes, but for all such applications, efficiency is so important that it
must be
> > part of the specification, and I think that if you get into coding such
> > applications, then you will be much better off if you have complete
control
> > over your bignum algorithms.
>
> Not once there is hardware support available for such operations
> and we still want to product strictly portable code.
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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 ` 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 [this message]
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
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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 ` Dmitriy Anisimkov
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