On Fri, 17 Jun 1994, Jim choate wrote:
I was wondering if anyone is aware of a function or test which would allow a person to feed PGP or other RSA algorithm a test key and then look at the result and determine if the key was greater or lesser than the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ actual key? ^^^^^^^^^^ What do you mean by "greater or lesser than the actual key"? If you mean number of bits you can do a simply file size comparison, if you mean binary numerical value a simple c program _should_ be able to handle that without any trouble I think.... although maybe you would need to include some of those 'big number' routines I keep hearing about... and you would have to strip off any header info before computing.
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