Re: Power function PGP math library?

pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) Wed, 22 June 2005 02:05 UTC

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Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> writes:
>Peter Gutmann wrote:
>>>openssl
>>
>>The code is the crypto equivalent of Heathrow Airport.
>
>The bignum code is reasonably OK :-)

I'd always seen that as the bit with all the excavators :-).

Peter.