big ints & elliptic curves

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Wed Apr 10 06:12:58 EDT 2002


"John" <none at none.com> writes:

> Is there any good library for multi-precision arithmetics in Python? Also
> looking for elliptic curve implementations.

In my experience you'll have a hard time getting acceptable
performance for elliptic curve calculations using Python.  I ended up
using Haskell, I think...

Cheers,
M.

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  people are right: they are hard, and Windows does not solve 
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