From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/01/30
Date: 1998-01-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34D1ED17.D788435@cl.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34D1CD35.8BEEAB7C@elca-matrix.ch
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.
Markus
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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
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 ` 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 [this message]
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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