NAME
Alt::Crypt::RSA::BigInt - Rewrite of Crypt::RSA
DESCRIPTION
This is a rework of Crypt::RSA to remove Math::Pari and instead base
all operations on Math::BigInt.
STATUS
This is intended to be a plug-in replacement for Crypt::RSA, with no
user-visible changes to existing features.
Math::Pari is completely removed. This includes the two modules:
- Crypt::Primes => Math::Prime::Util
- Crypt::Random => Bytes::Random::Secure
All operations are now performed using Math::BigInt, and prefer the
GMP and Pari backends.
All of the existing bug reports have been addressed, as well as adding
a few new features such as
PERFORMANCE
Performance using GMP is 3-10 times faster than the Crypt::RSA 1.99.
Using Math::BigInt::Pari, it is about half the speed at signing, and
on par when verifying.
If neither GMP nor Pari are available, performance is very slow, from
10x to 200x slower. However this is an environment where the original
code could not run.
Time to run test suite on my machine:
4 seconds with GMP and Math::Prime::Util::GMP
10 seconds with GMP
17 seconds with Pari (no GMP)
91 seconds with Calc (no GMP and no Pari)
The test suite uses smaller sizes in some tests for non-GMP, non-Pari.
AUTHOR
Vipul Ved Prakash wrote the original Crypt::RSA.
Dana Jacobsen did the changes to Math::BigInt.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2001 by Vipul Ved Prakash, 2012 by Dana Jacobsen.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.