[Vm-dev] pluginizing Galois Fields

[Robert Withers]

On 12/18/2015 03:09 PM, tim Rowledge wrote:
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>> On 18-12-2015, at 11:55 AM, Robert Withers <robert.w.withers at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I think I see your suggestion. Is it to find a c implementation of RS/Galois polynomials and wrap it in a facade model in squeak?
> No, not particularly - I know damn all about galois. Isn’t it a brand of stinky French cigarettes?

IIRC, Gauloise were 3 dollars a carton in Beirut, after the currency 
exchange.  Cheap french cigarettes in the old colonies, I love it!


> Just reminding you that you do not need to do everything in slang for plugins. If you can write your stuff in C (or even C++ with some ugly wrapper bits) you can include it in a plugin.

Ahh, yes I see. Well, that does ensure & preserve ownership, which has 
benefit. I will research & correct the repair code.

I would dearly love to not have platform code, come to think of it. That 
is a great advantage to crypto plugins, currently, I feel. I would like 
to go back to me original query, as such, about slanginizing a 
polynomial model.  If we could slang GenericGF, GenericGFPoly and 
GaloisField, that would actually be preferable for the cross-platform 
case. Is that possible?

robert

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