[Cryptography] DH non-prime kills "socat" command security

Viktor Dukhovni cryptography at dukhovni.org
Tue Feb 9 16:07:02 EST 2016


> On Feb 9, 2016, at 12:06 PM, Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> Proofs of primality
> are likely only to apply to a very small set of numbers having
> very specific properties some of which we don't necessarily
> fully understand.

This is of course nonsense.  We have fully general algorithms
for proving primality, even reasonably performant ones.

-- 
	Viktor.



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