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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)
The answer to "why" is: he's the author of the Putty SSH client, and he decided to use the bignum feature of Python to demonstrate the encryption in as little code as possible and make the signature out of it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)
The answer to "why" is: he's the author of the Putty SSH client, and he decided to use the bignum feature of Python to demonstrate the encryption in as little code as possible and make the signature out of it.