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Re: RSA Test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Thu Mar 11 14:36:46 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:25:58 GMT
From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: ekr@rtfm.com
Cc: vin@shore.net, cryptography@c2.net, coderpunks@toad.com
In-reply-to: <kj7lsy1s02.fsf@speedy.rtfm.com> (message from EKR on 03 Mar 1999
08:02:05 -0800)
Eric Rescorla writes:
> Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net> writes:
> > If you are waiting for NIST to offer the sort of full crypto module
> > validation tests that are offered to provide assurance for the DSA/Fortezza
> > version of FIPS-186(a), don't hold your breath.
>
> I'm not. I'd simply like to see a full set of key generation
> procedures that allowed you to insert a seed and compare your
> output key to the test vector. Precisely the way that FIPS-186a
> does for DSA.
I think Eric has made an excellent suggestion: having a full test
vector including RNG is a rather good idea. Is there any chance that
you could follow up on that at RSA labs Vin?
Adam
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