From owner-freebsd-security Fri Mar 26 11: 5:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0F514C1B for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:05:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id VAA20889; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:05:07 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:05:07 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Linus Nordberg , Mike Thompson , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kerberos vs SSH In-Reply-To: <199903261620.IAA05283@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > 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