mpn_sec_powm

[Niels Möller]

Torbjorn Granlund <tg at gmplib.org> writes:

> My take on this is that asking users to keep that zero isn't a
> requirement which is hard or unnatural to meet.

I agree. Implicitly reducing the exponent mod 2^{ebn} doesn'r seem very
useful. Reduction mod phi(m) is the algebraically natural thing to do,
and that's a different operation (except if m = 2^{ebn}+1 and a prime,
...).

Regards,
/Niels

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