Hello everyone,

I am fairly new with openssl and am trying to write a function which can 
make a public / private key pair with GMP (an open source big number 
library). I am doing this to compare the running time with openssl. I have 
a few questions regarding the openssl genrsa command:

- What kind of random initialisation is being performed to be sure no-one 
can predict the output of the random generator?
- Does openssl use "normal" primes of a certain number of bits or is 
it generating the so-called strong primes? And if it is generating strong 
primes what kinds of algortithm for this generating process is used 
(Gordon's algorithm or something else)?

Thanks in advance,

Joppe Bos

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