Re: RSA Test

Enzo Michelangeli (em@who.net)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 08:28:56 +0800

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-----Original Message-----
From: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: RSA Test

>Uh, no, definitely. You need (1) a good PRNG and (2) a reasonable
>primality tester. These are both tricky. Especially the PRNG.

BTW, a paper contributed to the IEEE P1363 Working Group by Preda Mihailescu
(http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/addendum.html#Mihailescu) suggests a
technique for generating provable primes for cryptographical use, in
alternative to probabilistic primality tests.

Enzo

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