Re: about the BN prime generator

2005-07-30 Thread Nils Larsch
Matthew Julius Raibert wrote: It also seems unusual that what appears to be a generic function call in the bignum library is in fact a helper function for a specific application and as such not useful for others. Writing my own prime generator is simple enough, but perhaps BN_generate_prime wo

Re: about the BN prime generator

2005-07-30 Thread Matthew Julius Raibert
It also seems unusual that what appears to be a generic function call in the bignum library is in fact a helper function for a specific application and as such not useful for others. Writing my own prime generator is simple enough, but perhaps BN_generate_prime would be more appropriately name

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2005-07-30 Thread TBilskie
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Re: about the BN prime generator

2005-07-30 Thread Vadym Fedyukovych
Michael Sierchio wrote: Nils Larsch wrote: Matthew Julius Raibert wrote: I'm working on a project for which I need to generate big primes. Along the way I noticed that when I run BN_generate_prime() it seems to always set the two most significant bits to one. In other words, if I ask for