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RE: Java, Crypto and Speed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Aronson)
Fri Jun 30 19:26:13 2000
From: "Simon Aronson" <S.M.Aronson@reading.ac.uk>
To: <gary.ellison@sun.com>, "Peter Wayner" <pcw@flyzone.com>
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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:11:51 +0100
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Yes, I have, It is pretty fast. Diffie Hellman Applets can be found at
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~sip99sma
(The CGI is REALLY slow though - am working on that, perl is not good for
BigIntegers)
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From: owner-cryptography@c2.net [mailto:owner-cryptography@c2.net]On
Behalf Of Gary Ellison
Sent: 28 June 2000 20:43
To: Peter Wayner
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Subject: Re: Java, Crypto and Speed
>>>>> " " == Peter Wayner <pcw@flyzone.com> writes:
> Has anyone experimented with writing crypto code in Java using the
> BigInteger class? It's a nice package with plenty of neat functions,
> but I haven't played with it yet. Is it fast enough? I'm really
> curious about the speed.
We use within the Java runtime to implement the DSA signature class.
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!" Harpo Marx
