On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:56:03AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > There's really no way you could do the Freenet protocol in Perl without a
> > lot of C libs backing you up. You've got to be able to deal with MPIs,
> > and do DSA, ElGamal, Diffie-Helman, Rijndael, Twofish, and SHA1.
> >
> > The Freenet Client Protocol, otoh, would be a piece of cake, but you have
> > to have a Freenet node installed of course.
>
> Module Crypt::DSA (B/BT/BTROTT/Crypt-DSA-0.12.tar.gz)
> Module Crypt::ElGamal (Contact Author Vipul Ved Prakash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> Module Crypt::Rijndael (D/DI/DIDO/Crypt-Rijndael-0.04.tar.gz)
> Module Crypt::Twofish (A/AM/AMS/Crypt-Twofish-2.12.tar.gz)
> Module Digest::SHA1 (G/GA/GAAS/Digest-SHA1-2.00.tar.gz)
>
> Ok, so it's not everything, but the situation certainly isn't as bad
> as all that...
Well then! I had gotten pretty frustrated over lack of big number support
in Perl so I guess I was assuming a little too much..
I don't think I want to write a Perl Freenet node on my own, but I'll happily
offer my assistance in getting the protocol details right to anyone who does.
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