[ANNOUNCEMENT] big_int-1.0.6 (stable) Released.

The new PECL package big_int-1.0.6 (stable) has been released at http://pecl.php.net/. Release notes ------------- + added frequently requested function bi_is_one(), which compares number with 1 + added php_big_int.dsw and php_big_int.dsp files. Now it is possible to build big_int extension on MSVC6 * updated documentation (/docs/index.html, INSTALL, README) and tests (/tests folder) * significantly improved speed of bi_from_str() function (up to 30 times for base = 2) 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://pear.php.net/packages/Crypt_RSA/ project for more complex implementation of RSA-like crypto, which supports key generating, encrypting/decrypting, generating and validating of digital 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-1.0.6.tgz Authors ------------- Alexander Valyalkin <valyala@gmail.com> (lead)