('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Thank you for all your replies. I have looked at the gnu math libraries and frankly they make me want to blow my brains out. There are about a hundred source files. I don't even know where too start. Anyways I found another free math library called FreeLIP. It only has 4 source file 2 of which are .h files. This makes it possible to learn it in a reasonable period of time. However I would like to know what the trick is. Some people suggested storing the numbers in a string. This seems a bit crude and would probably be too slow. Does anyone know how these libraries work, at least in theory. I suspect the large numbers get broken down or factored into smaller ones. On the other hand factoring is also slow. Please give me a hint :) Also I would just like to mention that I know about http://www.openssl.org/ and other free cryptographic libraries. However I would like to do this just for fun. Have to start somewhere if I want to learn about cryptography. Thanks for all your replies. This is really a great list. Adam Berent www.abisoft.net www.ideveloperonline.com Get your free email @ www.ideveloperonline.com
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