1Crypt::OpenSSL::Bignum is an XS perl module designed to provide basic 2access to the OpenSSL multiprecision integer arithmetic libraries. 3Presently, many though not all of the arithmetic operations that 4OpenSSL provides are exposed to perl. In addition, this module can be 5used to provide access to bignum values produced by other OpenSSL 6modules, such as key parameters from Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA. This module 7requires that the OpenSSL libraries and header files be installed. 8 9Crypt::OpenSSL::Bignum is currently under active development, and the 10many of the arithmetic APIs may change. However, the author is 11committed to greater stability of the following methods: 12 13 new_from_bin, new_from_hex, new_from_decimal 14 to_bin, to_hex, to_decimal 15 pointer_copy, bless_pointer 16 17The module is being developed on sourceforge; if you find something 18you like or hate, please come to http://perl-openssl.sf.net/ for 19discussion and the latest in the cvs repository. 20 21Copyright (c) 2003 Ian Robertson. Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA is free 22software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same 23terms as Perl itself. 24