Re: need function to get cube root

2005-08-06 Thread terr
I'll toss in my 2 cents and perhaps say something either stupid or obvious. That is that if you have a number of say 1024 bits then you can compute the cube root in 1024/3 operations where each operation in z^3. I do not know why you need the number and I do not know if this is an acceptable c

Re: need function to get cube root

2005-08-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 05:36:52PM -0700, Anirban Banerjee wrote: > Can someone please let me have a pointer to how I may obtain a cube root of > a BIGNUM Wrong question. BIGNUMs are for high precision *integer* arithmetic, often in a finite ring (e.g. Z/pqZ). In this context cube roots either

need function to get cube root

2005-08-06 Thread Anirban Banerjee
Hi everyone,   Can someone please let me have a pointer to how I may obtain a cube root of a BIGNUM, I looked up the SSLeay pages and the Openssl ducs but could not find any function that allows you to take a cube root of a BN. I've tried out BN_reciprocal() to get the value for 1/3

Re: need function to get cube root

2005-08-06 Thread Bear Giles
Anirban Banerjee wrote: > Hi everyone, > Can someone please let me have a pointer to how I may obtain a cube root of > a BIGNUM, Hopefully others will have better ideas but one possibility is to use Newton's formula. I'm not sure what it is with cube roots but it's probably something like:

OpenSSL issue with xsupplicant

2005-08-06 Thread Shane Stixrud
I am attempting to use xsupplicant to connect my fedora 4 laptop to a Open / static wep / eap-tls enabled cisco wireless network with Cisco ACS radius server and a Microsoft CA, everything works fine if I just use wep and avoid EAP-TLS. My xsupplicant configuration files seems to be correct, h