Adding standalone RSA code

Colin Percival colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Fri Dec 10 08:57:45 PST 2004


Mark Murray wrote:
> 240k is not a big binary, and it sounds like your applet is one that
> may get heavy use.

Unless you have a different definition of "heavy use" than me, no.  I
don't intend to replace openssl; I want some code for occasional high
security purposes -- like verifying the integrity of binary security
patches.

 > Is size really a concern?

No.  The size is a side-effect of having a minimal, highly secure,
library, and was not a design consideration.

Colin Percival


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