Paulo S. L. M. Barreto wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> I'm implementing elliptic curve software on top of OpenSSL Bignum
> library.
Interesting. Will you be making the code public?
> When testing it on NIST's standard curves, I found a problem that
> seems not to be in my code: Bignum reports that NIST's 384-bit prime is not
> prime!
Do you have a URL referencing these NIST standard curves?
> I've checked the value with MIRACL and Java (which in turn uses
> Colin Plumb's Bnlib), and both say that P384 is indeed prime, as expected.
>
I'll have a look if I have time.
Steve.
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