Philip MacKenzie wrote:
Hi,
This is my first time posting to this list - please let me know if this
is not the right forum for this comment/question.
I noticed that BN_generate_prime() does not actually generate random
primes. For instance, it will never generate a prime p of the form
p=2*3*r + 1, even when the variable "safe" is false. Unfortunately,
this is what I wanted to do.
Basically, BN_generate_prime() makes sure that (p-1)/2 is not divisible
by any small primes, even when the variable "safe" is false. Is this a
bug, or an undocumented feature? If this is a bug, there is an easy fix
(which I implemented to get around the problem), and if it's an
undocumented feature, I guess it should be documented.
Sounds like a bug to me!
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