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From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 08:58:27PM -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
+>   I'd like to add a new library for lightweight barebones RSA
+> computations, and associated commandline rsa-makekey, rsa-sign,
+> and rsa-verify utilities.
+>=20
+>   To a certain extent, this duplicates existing functionality
+> (openssl), but I think my code has important advantages which
+> justify the duplication:
+> 1. It is lightweight (around 2% of the size of openssl), which
+> may allow it to be used in memory-limited environments,

You compered size of the source or compiled library?
Compiled openssl library isn't too big...

PS. This is not a 'no' voice.

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