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
next prev parent 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
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