Re: [RFC] OpenSSL BigNum support

Hi! > What are the specific reasons for choosing OpenSSL Bignums over GMP, > outside of extension availability (which is totally a path I don't want us > to go down -- see also recent attempts to duplicate ext/mbstring into > ext/standard)? Are there any particular properties of the openssl > implementation that are beneficial for certain applications? I'd say having it for free when you have OpenSSL is a factor. If it were separate extension, I'd say the right route is to just make PECL ext as usual, but since this kind of has the natural place in openssl, it may be a bit different. I do see a point though that somehow integrating with the rest of OpenSSL would be a good thing then. After all, if you have code that does some interesting stuff with data but you can't use openssl pkey functions to input/output the results, it turns into reimplementing the whole crypto system and that's usually not a good idea. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com