Proven Primes

Jack Lloyd lloyd at acm.jhu.edu
Thu Mar 6 10:32:27 EST 2003


I believe the IPSec primes had been proven. All are SG primes with a g=2

Check RFC 2412, draft-ietf-ipsec-ikev2-05.txt, and
draft-ietf-ipsec-ike-modp-groups-05.txt

However, I don't seen any primality proof certificates included in the
texts.

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Ben Laurie wrote:

> I'm looking for a list or lists of sensibly sized proven primes - all
> the lists I can find are more interested in records, which are _way_ too
> big for cryptographic purposes.
>
> By "sensibly sized" I mean in the range 512-8192 bits. I'm particularly
> after Sophie Germain primes right now, but I guess all primes are of
> interest.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben.
>
>



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