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Re: Proven Primes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sat Mar 8 18:08:44 2003
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Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 18:45:56 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@acm.jhu.edu>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0303061026170.32044-100000@centaur.acm.jhu.edu>
Jack Lloyd wrote:
> I believe the IPSec primes had been proven. All are SG primes with a g=2
>
> Check RFC 2412, draft-ietf-ipsec-ikev2-05.txt, and
> draft-ietf-ipsec-ike-modp-groups-05.txt
>
> However, I don't seen any primality proof certificates included in the
> texts.
RFC 2412 looks good, however, as you say, no certificates are included,
nor is it made clear that (p-1)/2 has been proven.
I-Ds are less useful to me, since I can't give a long-term reference for
them :-(
Thanks!
Ben.
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