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From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/01/30
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> 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.