On Wed September 30 2009, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 01:00:44PM -0500, Michael S. Zick wrote: > > > You might want to use some representation other than binary for your > > integers. There are a lot of ways to do that, perhaps pick something > > that will give you a reasonable (for cryptographic purposes) length. > > This has no impact on ease of encryption or security. The interesting > parts of the problem are I think elsewhere. >
From a cryptographic viewpoint, sure. From the poster's comment that they have string handling to suit them, something that looks like a short string might fit with what they have already done. I guess I should have been clearer in my post. My bad. Mike ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
