Adding standalone RSA code

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:14 AM +0000 12/10/04, Mark Murray wrote:
>
>I must profess to having a degree of discomfort with duplicated
>functionality.
>
>240k is not a big binary, and it sounds like your applet is one
>that may get heavy use. Its not built for speed; how much of a
>problem is this?

Probably not any more than size...  How much faster is hardware
now than it was when RSA was first written?

>If OpenSSL grows hardware BigNum support, your app will not
>benefit; how will this affect the user? Is size really a concern?
>I can't find a disk smaller than 10 GB at my local dealer.

I am usually not too comfortable with duplication either, but I
must confess that OpenSSL gives me a headache whenever I try to
use it for much of anything.  On the other hand, I have never
actually used it for RSA  :-)

I will make a mild vote in favor of a small, well-written library
for RSA, but I do not feel very strongly about it.

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