I'll try wether there is the some reason for beeing unable to
genereate 24 Bit or 1025 Bit Keys...
Dr Stephen Henson schrieb:
>
> Russell Selph wrote:
> >
> > Another poster commented that he was having trouble generating large RSA
> > keys. (Sorry, but I've deleted the post.) I'm also seeing a difference in
> > behavior between versions. Below is a test of SSLEAY 0.8.1 vs. the current
> > CVS source. The older code completes in a couple of minutes. The new
> > code did not complete after 4 hours! I've run a couple of times with
> > similar results. The curious thing is that shorter keys seem to work just
> > fine.
> >
>
> Yes there is a problem. Its to do with the Montgomery conversion stuff
> and BN_RECURSION. A quick fix is to change the #define BN_RECURSION to
> #undef BN_RECURSION in bn.h (and bn.org).
>
> A more specific fix is to change bn_mont.c so the BN_from_montgomery()
> BN_RECURSION stuff isn't compiled in.
>
> I'll add this to the official tree soon and see if I can narrow down the
> problem further and fix it.
>
> Steve.
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