Mailing list for all users of the OCaml language and system.
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Remi VANICAT <remi.vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Big_int a^x mod m
Date: 24 Jul 2000 13:03:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ya3g0ozu6x1.dlv@serveur1-1.labri.u-bordeaux.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Julian Assange's message of "24 Jul 2000 07:29:06 +1000"

Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> writes:

>  val (**/) : num -> num -> num 
>  val power_num : num -> num -> num
>    Exponentiation
> 
> The num library documentation doesn't seem to support modular
> exponentiation. This is seems to be an unusual oversight, and means
> the library isn't useful for real-world cryptographic applications.
> 
> Is anyone working on adding mod exp's? Or are there other bigint
> ocaml libraries?

there is at least two other bigint libraries :
one is MLGMP a binding for GNU MP :
  http://www.di.ens.fr/~monniaux/programmes.html.en 
the other is numerix : http://pauillac.inria.fr/~quercia/

-- 
Rémi Vanicat
vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat



  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-24 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-23 21:29 Julian Assange
2000-07-24 11:03 ` Remi VANICAT [this message]
2000-07-25  0:44   ` Michel Quercia
2000-07-25  9:33 ` Julian Assange

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=ya3g0ozu6x1.dlv@serveur1-1.labri.u-bordeaux.fr \
    --to=remi.vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr \
    --cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox