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Bug#608999: ITP: libcrypt-dh-gmp-perl -- Crypt::DH replacement that uses GMP Directly



Package: wnpp
Owner: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-perl@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : libcrypt-dh-gmp-perl
  Version         : 0.00009
  Upstream Author : Daisuke Maki <daisuke@endeworks.jp>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-DH-GMP/
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : Crypt::DH replacement that uses GMP Directly

Crypt::DH::GMP is a (somewhat) portable replacement to Crypt::DH, implemented
mostly in C.

In the beginning, there was Crypt::DH. However, Crypt::DH suffers from a
couple of problems: GMP/Pari libraries are almost always required; Crypt::DH
suffers from having Math::BigInt in between GMP. Instantiating an object
comes with a relatively high cost, and if you make many computations in one
go, your program will suffer dramatically because of this.

Crypt::DH::GMP attempts to alleviate these problems by providing a
Crypt::DH-compatible layer, which, instead of doing calculations via
Math::BigInt, directly works with libgmp in C.

This means that essentially 2 call stacks worth of expensive Perl method
calls are eliminated and also only load 1 (Crypt::DH::GMP) module instead of
3 (Crypt::DH + Math::BigInt + Math::BigInt::GMP) is needed.

These add up to a fairly significant increase in performance.



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