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12 MPI library

Public key cryptography is based on mathematics with large numbers. To implement the public key functions, a library for handling these large numbers is required. Because of the general usefulness of such a library, its interface is exposed by Libgcrypt. In the context of Libgcrypt and in most other applications, these large numbers are called MPIs (multi-precision-integers).


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