Adding standalone RSA code
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
pjd at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 9 23:57:23 PST 2004
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 08:58:27PM -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
+> I'd like to add a new library for lightweight barebones RSA
+> computations, and associated commandline rsa-makekey, rsa-sign,
+> and rsa-verify utilities.
+>
+> To a certain extent, this duplicates existing functionality
+> (openssl), but I think my code has important advantages which
+> justify the duplication:
+> 1. It is lightweight (around 2% of the size of openssl), which
+> may allow it to be used in memory-limited environments,
You compered size of the source or compiled library?
Compiled openssl library isn't too big...
PS. This is not a 'no' voice.
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