Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:05:07 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Linus Nordberg <linus.nordberg@canit.se>, Mike Thompson <miket@dnai.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kerberos vs SSH Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990326205621.5291D-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199903261620.IAA05283@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > That's a pretty old message. If you look at the followups to it > you will find the counterargument from the ssh 2 people, and a > third example from even older bignum source code that is very similar > to the ssh 2 and gmp code. > > There are only so many ways a bignum library can be written. Still, > I think the GMP author was right in regards to the SSH 2 people using > his code verbatim. On the otherhand, bignum is something that a > good programmer could write from scratch in a week. The last two > postings in the thread note that the bignum code can be derived from > Knuth's Seminumerical Alg. book fairly easily... in a few hours. I'd > agree with that comment too. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> > Anybody who has taken a computer algebra course in part of their curriculum should be able to implement the easy part of arbitary length library (arbitary length integers & operations over finite fields) with relative ease. There should be *many* such people. Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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