Re: RSA Test

Adam Back (aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:25:58 -0500

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Eric Rescorla writes:
> Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net> writes:
> > If you are waiting for NIST to offer the sort of full crypto module
> > validation tests that are offered to provide assurance for the DSA/Fortezza
> > version of FIPS-186(a), don't hold your breath.
>
> I'm not. I'd simply like to see a full set of key generation
> procedures that allowed you to insert a seed and compare your
> output key to the test vector. Precisely the way that FIPS-186a
> does for DSA.

I think Eric has made an excellent suggestion: having a full test
vector including RNG is a rather good idea. Is there any chance that
you could follow up on that at RSA labs Vin?

Adam

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