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Re: Proven Primes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Sat Mar 8 21:42:13 2003
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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:33:27 +1100
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@acm.jhu.edu>,
Cryptography <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E6A3A64.4070609@algroup.co.uk>
Tom St Denis <tomstdenis@yahoo.com> has a program that constructs provable
primes, by bootstrapping them from smaller proven primes. The trouble is
that his stuff is off the air at the moment. You might write to him,
though. It's pretty quick, IIRC.
Greg.
At 06:45 PM 3/8/2003 +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
>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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