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Re: CVS commit: basesrc/games



"Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
> 
> Lennart Augustsson <lennart%augustsson.net@localhost> 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



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