Thank you, that sounds interesting. I'll look at it.
But is there really no possibilty to get OpenSSL library smaller, only with 
BIGNUMs. I ask that because I did very much with these functions.

Thank you.


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> Datum: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:04:02 +0100
> Von: "Matt Caswell (fr...@baggins.org)" <fr...@baggins.org>
> An: openssl-users@openssl.org
> Betreff: Re: OpenSSL Library: Only BIGNUM functions

> As an alternative have you considered using the GMP library? That
> library is much more focussed on providing multi-precision arithmetic
> as opposed to crypto , so I would expect it to be a lot smaller.
> 
> http://gmplib.org/
> 
> Matt
> 
> On 22 June 2012 12:57,  <chip...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have to create a program, which has to be as small as possible, but it
> should use the BIGNUM functions from the OpenSSL library, because it has
> to work with large numbers. Is there a possibilty to compile a library,
> which just contains the BIGNUMs functions. I don't need any special features
> like rsa or dsa.
> > At the moment I build the OpenSSL library with as little ciphers as
> possible. Unfortunately I cannot deactivate all of them, because then the
> library doesn't compile. The library is now about 1,59Mb and I think this is
> just a little bit too much for only the BIGNUM functions.
> > Another possibilty could be to just copy the source code which is in the
> bn-directory. But it doesn't compile because there are many dependencies
> from other parts around this directory.
> > Has anyone a version which just contains the BIGNUM functions?
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
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