2011/12/4 István Lakatos <[email protected]>:
> The problem I ran into while trying to implement RSA in Common Lisp for my
> cryptography class was calculating the square root of a bignum (to
> demonstrate the Wiener attack on the cipher). There seems to be no bignum
> equivalent to floating point numbers. Are there any libraries that rectify
> this issue? I couldn't seem to find any.

Clozure CL implements EXPT and SQRT for bignums.

-Hans

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