13 Jun
2011
13 Jun
'11
2:43 p.m.
On 06/13/2011 08:02 AM, Niels Möller wrote:
When one really wants repeatability, one can use the (otherwise pretty useless) lfib_knuth generator rather than yarrow256.
I've actually found that yarrow256 itself *is* repeatable across nettle versions (well, 2.0 → 2.1 at least); it was just the RSA key generation that was not repeatable.
The generation method was replaced in nettle-2.1. From the NEWS file.
- Key generation for RSA and DSA changed to use Maurer's algorithm to generate provably prime numbers (as usual, the mathematical proof does not guaranteee that the implementation is bug free).
ah, thanks; this explains why. Thanks for the pointer.
--dkg