BigInt powmod(b, e, m) or equivalent

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i asked this question on the google list last year (July 2018) and got no response, so I’ll ask here again on the new forum.

I’m converting Ruby -> Crystal.

In the Ruby OPENSSL library, when I ‘require openssl’ I can then use a bunch of fast modular math methods like.

y = b.to_bn.mod_exp(d, self)

In Crystal I have to do

def powmod(b, x, m)        
  r = 1.to_big_i; b = b.to_big_i        
  while x > 0          
    r = (r * b) % m if x.odd?          
    b = (b * b) % m          
    x >>= 1        
  end       
  r     
 end      

y = powmod(b, d, self)       # y = (b**d) mod self`

Does Crystal have the equivalent methods as Ruby (docs don’t show them)?

Will it provide in std libs these modular math function that exist in Ruby in the future?

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Please open an issue in the GitHub tracker. It seems there’s a function to that in libgmp, which is what we are using for big numbers: https://gmplib.org/manual/Integer-Exponentiation.html

You can request or even try sending PRs for any functions that we didn’t include in the libgmp wrapper.