"Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
> 
> Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> writes:
> > Why?  What has factoring of small numbers got to do with crypto?
> > I've used factor many times and none of them had anything to do
> > with crypto.
> 
> He added bignum support, using bignums from the crypto libraries.
That's excellent, but then the man page should be updated.
And I still don't think it should be classified as crypto.
Factoring can be used for crypto, but that's far from its only
application.

	-- Lennart