12 MPI library

12.1 Data types		MPI related data types.
12.2 Basic functions		First steps with MPI numbers.
12.3 MPI formats		External representation of MPIs.
12.4 Calculations		Performing MPI calculations.
12.5 Comparisons		How to compare MPI values.
12.6 Bit manipulations		How to access single bits of MPI values.
12.7 EC functions		Elliptic curve related functions.
12.8 Miscellaneous		Miscellaneous MPI functions.

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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