[46720] in Cypherpunks
Re: phone calls from hell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Sun Jan 7 17:09:10 1996
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 14:01:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Brad Dolan <bdolan@use.usit.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960107130431.12839B-100000@use.usit.net>
Hey - he spent so much time training suicide bombers maybe the phone was
set to blow if anyone dialed the, er, Samaritans.
Simon
(defun modexpt (x y n) "computes (x^y) mod n"
(cond ((= y 0) 1) ((= y 1) (mod x n))
((evenp y) (mod (expt (modexpt x (/ y 2) n) 2) n))
(t (mod (* x (modexpt x (1- y) n)) n))))
