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Subject: Re: I would like to see some big integer examples of GMP code
From: Bill Frantz (frantznetcom.com)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 01:37:00 CDT

At 5:59 AM -0700 7/25/00, Peter D. Junger wrote:
>I'm sorry. I did not make myself clear. I want this example for use
>in connection with legal arguments to be made in an article and perhaps
>in litigation, not for demonstration to my students. The issue has to
>do with the distinctions that lots of lawyers try to make between
>source code and object code, which I don't think makes any sense.
>
>So what I am after is a very short chunk of object code that I can
>contrast with source code that does the same thing. For these puposes
>Perl is considered source code not object code. So the idea of
>converting Perl to C source code to C object code is quite attractive.

Unless you really need public key operations for your legal argument, and
it is not clear to me that you do, a simple encryption program with RC4 can
be written in ANSI C in about one page. Since RC4 is used to protect many
HTTPS web transactions, making the point that it is mainstream encryption
will not be hard. If you accept a long key then you implementation would
not have been exportable under last year's regulations.

Cheers - Bill

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