Algorithm used by BigInteger prime generator?
D'Arcy Smith
darcy at itools.symantec.com
Thu Apr 22 12:24:32 PDT 1999
> Quoth Per Bothner [mailto:bothner at cygnus.com]:
> > "D'Arcy Smith" <darcy at itools.symantec.com> writes:
> > > [crypto] is what [BigInteger] is was written for in the first place
> > > apparently...
> > I had the (unsubstantiated) impression was that it was written for
> > JDBC (i.e. a needed SQL data type). Certainly, I can't imagine
> > BigDecimal being useful for crypto, but big decimal integers
> > (at least 18 digits) are needed for database applications.
> His assumption was probably based on this constructor:
No my assumption was based on a conversation I had with
the original author a couple of years ago...
..darcy
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D'Arcy Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Symantec Corp., Internet Tools Division
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