Re: about the BN prime generator

2005-07-30 Thread Matthew Julius Raibert
named BN_generate_rsa_prime or something. Thanks for the help, Matt Raibert On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, 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

about the BN prime generator

2005-07-29 Thread Matthew Julius Raibert
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 a thousand 16 bit primes, I get a thousand primes that lie between hex C000