On 06/13/2011 08:02 AM, Niels Möller wrote: > When one really wants repeatability, one can use the (otherwise pretty > useless) lfib_knuth generator rather than yarrow256.
I've actually found that yarrow256 itself *is* repeatable across nettle
versions (well, 2.0 → 2.1 at least); it was just the RSA key generation
that was not repeatable.
> The generation method was replaced in nettle-2.1. From the NEWS file.
>
> * Key generation for RSA and DSA changed to use Maurer's
> algorithm to generate provably prime numbers (as usual, the
> mathematical proof does not guaranteee that the
> implementation is bug free).
ah, thanks; this explains why. Thanks for the pointer.
--dkg
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