Re: Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Ben Laurie
"Paulo S. L. M. Barreto" wrote: > > Greetings. > > I'm implementing elliptic curve software on top of OpenSSL Bignum > library. 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! I've checked

Re: Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Dr Stephen Henson wrote: > > > > 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? > Ignore that. I've found the URL. On NIS

Re: Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
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

Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Paulo S. L. M. Barreto
Greetings. I'm implementing elliptic curve software on top of OpenSSL Bignum library. 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! I've checked the value with MIRACL and Java (which in tur