From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:40:27 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Exploring (RSA (001)
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At 10:39 PM 8/29/96 -0400, Scottauge@aol.com wrote:
>Exploring Rivest, Shamir, Adelman algorithm, but hoping someone out there is
>interested in very large number manipulations.
>
>...
>
>Other than using Mathematica or Maple, I would like to use C or perferrably
>C++.
>
>Just some basics such as multiplication, addition, subtraction, division,
>mod, etc over the Z set.

I have been collecting information about crypto libraries for the Mac
Crypto conference next week.  Here is what a quick AltaVista search came up
with.  Since you want C++, I would particularly look at Wei Dai's Crypto++
library.  If anyone has other strongly recommended libraries, please let me
know.


Crypto Libraries
 
  http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/ has source for MD5
 
  http://www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto/ for a comparison of crypto
  libraries
 
  http://www.enter.net/~chronos/cryptolog1.html has a collection of
  links to crypto resources
 
  http://www.openmarket.com/techinfo/applied.htm - Internet Locations 
  for Materials on the Disks for Applied Cryptography
 
  Crypto++ in C++ by Wei Dai. -  Has been tested under Codewarrior
  2.0. 
 
    ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/README  - in the USA
 
  Cryptolib in C by Jack Lacy - No Mac version, C, Sparc, SGI, i486
  assembler  
 
    To obtain, send email to cryptolib@research.att.com with a
    statement of the following 
    form:  
     
           "I am a U.S. or Canadian citizen or a legal permanent
    resident of the 
            U.S. and am aware that some parts of CryptoLib may be
    restricted under 
            United States Export regulations.  I have read and
    understand the 
            CryptoLib license." 
     
     
            Name: 
            Location: 
            E-mail: 
            Are you licensed to use the RSA patent? 
               If yes, give name of licensed organization: 
 
  RSAref 2.0, by RSA Data Security Inc. - Tested with Mac
 
    ftp://ftp.rsa.com:/rsaref/README  - In the USA
 
    http://www.consensus.com/RSAREF/rsaref_toc.html - in the USA
 
  SSLeay in C by Eric Young - C, gcc and system cc for Solaris 2.[34] 
  (sparc and x86), SunOS 4.1.3, DGUX, OSF1 Alpha, HPUX 9, AIX 3.5,
  IRIX 5.[23], LINUX, NeXT (intel) 
 
    ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSL/
 
  The Systemics Cryptix Cryptography Library in Java or Perl by Gary
  Howland - Java on Win95, WinNT, Solaris, Linux, Irix.
 
    http://www.systemics.com/software/
 
  The Cryptlib free Encryption Library in C by Peter Gutmann - Unix,
  DOS, windows (16 & 32 bit DLL available), Amiga
 
    http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib.html
 

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