[ANNOUNCEMENT] big_int-1.0.5 (stable) Released.

The new PECL package big_int-1.0.5 (stable) has been released at http://pecl.php.net/. Release notes ------------- * significantly improved speed of bi_to_str() function (up to 30 times for base = 2) * fixed bug in big_int_to_str() function, which sometimes returned wrong result for negative numbers Package Info ------------- Functions from this package are useful for number theory applications. For example, in two-keys cryptography. See /tests/RSA.php in the package for example of simple implementation of RSA-like cryptoalgorithm. See http://chat.finalcombat.com/vayala/big_int/ page for more complex implementation of RSA-like crypto, which supports key generating, encrypting/decrypting, signing and validating of sign. The package has many bitset functions, which allow to work with arbitrary length bitsets. This package is much faster than bundled into PHP BCMath and consists almost all functions, which are implemented in PHP GMP extension, but it needn't any external libraries. Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pecl.php.net/package/big_int Changelog: http://pecl.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=big_int Download: http://pecl.php.net/get/big_int-1.0.5.tgz Authors ------------- Alexander Valyalkin <valyala@gmail.com> (lead)