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

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

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

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
--- 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 procedure call