Dec 22, 2021
5 min read
Big Integers and Some Crypto Homomorphic Magic
In software, we normally use integers that have 32-bit or 64-bit values. But in cryptography, we can be using 1,024, 2,048 and even 4,096-bit values. So, how do we do that? Well, we use Big Integers, and which can be of any size. In this article, we will implement a Paillier homomorphic method using Big Integers. A 2,048-bit value, for example, has this many digits:
