Re: [openssl-dev] common factors in (p-1) and (q-1)

2015-07-31 Thread Samuel Neves
On 31-07-2015 22:03, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > Is finding sufficiently large factors a tractable problem? p-1 will usually have a large prime factor. But for q-1 to have the same prime factor is highly unlikely. The probability that GCD(n1, n2) = d for random n1, n2 is 6/(d^2 pi^2). For RSA-1024

Re: [openssl-dev] curve25519

2015-06-21 Thread Samuel Neves
On 21-06-2015 18:10, Salz, Rich wrote: > The big thing is "avoid data-dependant jumps." For example, memcmp() always > runs the full length, almost any "if" statement needs careful scrutiny, and > so on. Case in point: https://github.com/msotoodeh/curve25519/blob/master/source/curve25519_dh.c

Re: [openssl-dev] [openssl.org #3897] request: add BLAKE2 hash function (let's kill md5sum!)

2015-06-10 Thread Samuel Neves
On 11-06-2015 00:36, Bill Cox wrote: > Samuel Neves' SSE version is the one we all played with in the Password > Hashing Competition. The speed is amazing. Is there a faster version > available now? Which version should we integrate into OpenSSL? The problem with my implementat

[openssl.org #3558] [PATCH] Use only unsigned arithmetic in constant-time operations

2014-10-06 Thread Samuel Neves via RT
n the arithmetic shift version, but compilers seem to be pretty good at recognizing and generating the arithmetic shift anyway, where available. >From 5e78c9653bb473e9ad3ac015b755f08750b9a651 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Neves Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 00:13:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] U