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Re:A Go implementation of Poly1305 that makes sense by jacobvosmaer on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @08:57AM (#19562904)
I'm not sure but I suspect the algorithm contains optimizations that require direct access to the "limbs" of the big integers.

Or perhaps it's about avoiding allocations?

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