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

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 NIST's

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 NISTs site

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 the