In message <of31dca8b5.b1f8fecc-on83257590.0055859e-83257590.00568...@br.ibm.com> on Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:44:16 -0300, [email protected] said:
erc> I have the need to extend the engine support to most of the erc> BigNumber operations like: madd, mred, mexp and so on. Is there a erc> specific reason on why this hasn't been done yet? Is it possible? erc> What's the best approach? It hasn't been done yet... because the engines are supposed to be crypto engines? Bignum operations aren't crypto operations per se even though they are used by crypto operations. It would probably be possible if we put our mind to it, but honestly, I'm not sure if it's worth the while (gut feeling). Let me ask you back, what reasons do you have to want to place have bignum operations directly available in a crypto engine? Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte [email protected] http://richard.levitte.org/ "Life is a tremendous celebration - and I'm invited!" -- from a friend's blog, translated from Swedish ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
