From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@...>
Date: 2004-04-06T23:12:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: New Bignum

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:18:10PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> I'm not sure whether replacing current bignum is a good idea.  The
> integer values in Ruby go back and forth between Fixnum and Bignum
> according to its value range, which might not be a desired behavior
> for cryptogram calculation etc.

Why would this be a problem for cryptography?  (I'm probably being
stupid here...)

Eivind.