Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/games
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 06/17/2002 04:21:51
"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