Talk:List of arbitrary-precision arithmetic software

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–== OpenSSL arbitrary-precision arithmetic? ==

How exactly is OpenSSL arbitrary-precision arithmetic? How does one calculate 2^3^4^5 using OpenSSL? How does anyone calculate anything at all with OpenSSL. Can you multiply two RSA keys? The OpenSSL Wikipedia page contains a link to a so-called OpenSSL Programming Guide which is in fact a Hewlett Packard document regarding OpenVMS. Perhaps the author assumed that this erroneous reference meant that OpenSSL was some sort of programming language? The link to an OpenSSL Programming Tutorial is instead a link to IBM's Linux documentation. Neither have anything to do with "OpenSSL Programming". Was the author duped? What other explation for this erroneous inclusion of OpenSSL in this page. Would that someone in authority could look into the matter and strike the OpenSSL references from this document and correct the errors in the OpenSSL Wikipedia page. Hpfeil (talk) 21:31, 27 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Categories: 2600:387:F:4832:0:0:0:8 (talk) 11:43, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry editing this from a phone at night but I happen to read this. Openssl has a bignum application programming interface that is used the same way as other libraries such as GMP and the others listed here. When using these types of API all operations are reduced to function calls for example: a = multiply (a,b);. Often times, there are more fields in the functions such as a field for the return value itself, of fields for the operating base but there's no IEEE specification for how arbitrary precision implementations are supposed to be written l however, there is a large amount of overlap and similarity and choice of design that emerges from the usage of function calls. 2600:387:F:4832:0:0:0:8 (talk) 11:46, 29 April 2022 (UTC)