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| (...) They don't, but they need bignums (really big integers). (...) the API is in java.math.BigInteger . (...) You could just run PPP over it I suppose, with some encryption (IPSec?) on top of it. Would be dead slow, though. The charm of the RCX (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| By all means use lejOS, but don't think that legOS is hard to get working on Windows. Max. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dubravetz" <david_dubravetz@hotmail.com> To: <lugnet.robotics.rcx...ugnet.com> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 4:57 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
| | | | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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| (...) If you need floating point numbers the leJOS JVM for the RCX uses floating point: (URL) seems like a very intersting idea. I actually wanted to skip the RCX altogether and somehow link up a networking protocol using just the IR Towers. One (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
| | | | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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| (...) It really isn't that limited when you consider other platforms that run full PK systems, such as the Dallas Semiconductor iButton. It has a much more limited processors, more limited RAM, and you write your code in Java so it has to be (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
| | | | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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| (...) Excellent point, Benton Jackson e-mailed me with the following: (...) Good idea using a external sensor to seed some sort of random number generator function. However, the codebase for PGP is pretty darned large and after looking at the source (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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