> What do you think a big-integer division by a word-sized divisor *is*? > Obviously rolling your own is always an option. Are you just saying that > Base58 encoding and decoding is easier than Shamir's Secret Sharing because > the divisors are small?
Well, yes, to be fair, in fact it is. The small divisor and lack of modulo arithmetic make base-58 encoding and decoding noticeably smaller and easier than Shamir's Secret Sharing over GF(P256). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
