Any comments on the last release?

[Nikos Mavroyanopoulos]

On Monday 19 April 2004 15:47, Werner Koch wrote:

> >> #define GCRY_PRIME_CHECK_AT_GOT_PRIME   1
> >> #define GCRY_PRIME_CHECK_AT_MAYBE_PRIME 2
> >> if you probably check for mode (which used to be 0 in previous
> >> versions), it should not make any difference.
> > How can I do that? I currently generate the parameters using
> > gcry_pk_genkey() with a sexp of "(genkey(rsa(nbits %d)))".
> That is only used for the primegen interface and not for the higher
> level public key generation.  IIRC, you requested this interface for
> DH use?
Yes that's true, but I didn't really care about the DH primes generation,
since it was already slow. The difference was in RSA keys generation which was 
slowed down considerably (at least for 512 bit keys).

I just debugged it a bit, and it seems like a false alarm. The long delay was 
in the random gatherer (probably due to blocking in /dev/random). It seems
that the VERY_STRONG flag, is quite demanding :)


> Salam-Shalom,
>    Werner

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Nikos Mavroyanopoulos