17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Many cypherpunks might enjoy programming in XLISP 2.1h because the freely available implementation of LISP now offers support for BIGNUMS. That means it is quite easy to write cryptographic algorithms that use very large numbers without adding extra support. The downside is that the language is interpretted and thus much slower than something like C. It should also be possible to write RSA in a very short XLISP program. I don't know if you can do 4 lines, but it should be quite short. -Peter