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Author pitrou
Recipients Ramchandra Apte, benjamin.peterson, mark.dickinson, meador.inge, pitrou
Date 2011-12-15.07:28:16
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> Anybody else than Benjamin and Meador please comment on this.

I don't know why we would want to maintain this in the stdlib. We would also need a dedicated maintainer so that efficient algorithms are chosen and implemented.

Such functions are available in PyCrypto by the way: https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/doc/#crypto-util-number
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2011-12-15 07:28:17pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, mark.dickinson, benjamin.peterson, meador.inge, Ramchandra Apte
2011-12-15 07:28:17pitrousetmessageid: <1323934097.3.0.554372822257.issue13603@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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