On Sun, 21 May 2000, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
> Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> 
> > Things are very much in limbo, and will be for some time (does anyone know a
> > decently fast DH implementation for or in perl so liberator get get crypto
> > going?) so please don't start planning another release right now...
> 
> You can just write your own - it's very simple (as long as you use a fast
> algorithm for the G^x mod n).  The problem is getting the MPI right, and
> I've already gotten that working in Python.

Yes, I have no issues with writing the modular reduction myself. The problem is
that the standard mpi library that comes with perl is way to slow (130 seconds
for a normal exponentiation using reduction), and that the plugin ones are
either borked or do not support bit shifts (needed for mod reduction).

I'm guessing you are using an library for python, not writing mpi code
yourself...

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