On Mon 07-03-05 14:06, Brandon Ooi wrote:
> Sorry if this is a dumb question but I couldn't find the openssl 
> bugzilla (or equivalent) to look for this. I was using openssl to check 
> primes and kept running into these weird issues until I found this...
> 
> $ openssl version
> OpenSSL 0.9.7f 22 Mar 2005
> $ openssl prime 2
> 2 is not prime
> 
> But.. 2 is prime right?

Yes.

> Anyways, it's not a huge issue but this could be a bigger bug?

I don't know, but appears to have been fixed in 0.9.8b:

$ for ver in 0.9.7m 0.9.8 0.9.8a 0.9.8b ; do
> /usr/local/apps/openssl-$ver/bin/openssl version
> /usr/local/apps/openssl-$ver/bin/openssl prime 2
> done
OpenSSL 0.9.7m 23 Feb 2007
2 is not prime
OpenSSL 0.9.8 05 Jul 2005
2 is not prime
OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005
2 is not prime
OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
2 is prime
$ 

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