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Re: Bigger DSA keys

2005-09-21 06:03:04

Hal Finney wrote:
In contrast, finding "strong" primes p such that (p-1)/2 is also prime
does tend to be slow.  I think there is a trick to do it using a double
sieve but it is still much slower than finding regular primes.

There is - Geoff Thorpe and I planned to implement it for OpenSSL, but never got around to it.

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