At 09:38 PM 8/29/96 -0500, you wrote:

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1: How can I take the suqare root mod p ?

This has what to do with CP?

Talking about actual implementation details for actual cryptographic algorithms? Very little these days*, though I suppose Jim Bell has a solution for that.... [*Not that I'm necessarily in a position to bitch, given the code-to-ranting ratio of my own postings :-)] # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Reassign Authority!