Re: Draft Edition of LibTomMath book

2003-06-28 Thread Peter Gutmann
Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Does the proprietary SSH still use GMP? I know no other major crypto apps >using GMP for big number math. I've seen it used in a couple of lesser-known apps that I played with for interop testing, nothing that counts as a major app though. Maybe it's b

Re: Draft Edition of LibTomMath book

2003-06-27 Thread Marcel de Riedmatten
Le ven 27/06/2003 à 15:24, Werner Koch a écrit : > Does the proprietary SSH still use GMP? I know no other major crypto > apps using GMP for big number math. A problem with GMP is that it > heavily uses alloca() and thus it is not that hard to find traces of > secrets in the core. I know that f

Re: Draft Edition of LibTomMath book

2003-06-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:02:30 +1200, Peter Gutmann said: > the GMP source code to know what it does (GMP is a special case, being a > general bignum library but with an implicit acknowledgement that it's going to > end up used for crypto as well, although there are some missing primitives Does the

Re: Draft Edition of LibTomMath book

2003-06-26 Thread Peter Gutmann
bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >One thing that I've noticed for a long time is that there are *VERY* few math >libraries that don't leave whatever numbers they're working with in memory >when deallocating (deallocating heap via free() or deallocating stack via >returning from a procedure call or

Re: Draft Edition of LibTomMath book

2003-06-25 Thread tom st denis
--- bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing that I've noticed for a long time is that there > are *VERY* few math libraries that don't leave whatever > numbers they're working with in memory when deallocating > (deallocating heap via free() or deallocating stack via > returning from a procedur

Re: Draft Edition of LibTomMath book

2003-06-25 Thread bear
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, tom st denis wrote: >The Draft Edition of the LibTomMath book [book about how to implement >bignum math] is freely available on my site at > >http://book.libtomcrypt.org > >Keep in mind it is a draft and has not been edited yet. However, if >you ever wanted to learn how to

re: Draft Edition of LibTomMath book

2003-06-25 Thread tom st denis
Just a quick comment. The PDF is not a "web friendly" PDF so you if you are trying to view it inline with your browser you have to wait for it to download completely first. I've managed 80KB/sec off the site so it doesn't take too long to grab it.Alternatively you can grab the .PDF.BZ2 file a