Use fixnum instead of rolling custom solution about pc-dart HOT 5 CLOSED

This is important for other reasons, as well. Technically, integers in Dart are of an arbitrary precision, so behaviour of this library is unpredictable when compiled to Javascript. By using fixnum's integers, behaviour when compiled is guaranteed to match behaviour when run on the dart VM.

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@mwcw can you comment? I can do this, but there will be nontrivial overhead.

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Hi,

The thing that needs to be watched out for is that crypto libraries tend to be become infrastructure components and if infrastructure components start to bring with them a tree of dependencies those dependencies can cause issues for library users.

I'll speak to @dghgit about it.

MW

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Hi,

The thing that needs to be watched out for is that crypto libraries tend to be become infrastructure components and if infrastructure components start to bring with them a tree of dependencies those dependencies can cause issues for library users.

I'll speak to @dghgit about it.

MW

I understand the issue you're referencing. On the other hand, fixnum is provided by the Dart team itself; some of those issues may be mitigated by the fact that the package is pretty conservative in releasing new versions.

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Hi,

I think we may as well go with this given which team is maintaining it, it will pin the project to whatever their minimum is but we can deal with that if and when it occurs.

So after the release #8 we should start using it.

MW

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