[DGD] ASN, how to use them?

Felix A. Croes felix at dworkin.nl
Sat Oct 9 00:00:46 CEST 2010


=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Petter_Nystr=F6m?= <jimorie at gmail.com> wrote:

> So the size of an ASN is only as abritrary as I allow it to be? How
> does computation cost connect with the size of the chosen modulus?
> I.e. is it a bad idea to use a crazy large modulus for situations
> where you just want an ASN that can be, well, arbitrarily large?

With a reasonable limit on the available ticks, the worst thing that
can happen is an error.  And apart from asn_pow(), it's all reasonably
efficient.

Regards,
Felix Croes



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