#7746: Blum-Goldwasser probabilistic encryption
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   Reporter:  mvngu         |       Owner:  mvngu                               
     
       Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  needs_work                          
     
   Priority:  major         |   Milestone:  sage-4.3.1                          
     
  Component:  cryptography  |    Keywords:  Blum-Goldwasser, probabilistic 
encryption
Work_issues:                |      Author:  Minh Van Nguyen                     
     
   Upstream:  N/A           |    Reviewer:                                      
     
     Merged:                |  
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Comment(by wdj):

 Replying to [comment:3 mvngu]:
 > Replying to [comment:2 wdj]:


 > It looks to me that there needs to be a function called, say,
 > "has_blum_prime(lbound, ubound)" in the module `sage/crypto/util.py`.
 > This function checks to see if there is a Blum prime within the
 > specified lower and upper bounds.


 Sounds good.


 > use the following command to rebuild the HTML version of the reference
 manual:
 > {{{
 > ./sage -docbuild reference html
 > }}}
 > [[BR]]
 >


 Thanks. Docs compile fine and look great.



 >
 >
 > > Is the best place for blum_blum_shub in util or in a stream cipher
 module?
 >
 > I think the best place for the function `blum_blum_shub()` is in a
 module
 > for pseudorandom number generators. The module that comes to mind
 > is `sage/misc/prandom.py`. But all functions in that module are exported
 to the

 Why not

 {{{
 sage/crypto/stream_cipher.py
 }}}
 instead?

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