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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "Marcel" == Marcel Winandy <marcel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Marcel> Hi! Am Dienstag, 20. April 2004 07:51 schrieb Casey Marshall: >> Ugh, I'm getting increasingly tired of the Prime class; I'm >> considering just punting this class and using >> BigInteger.isProbablePrime instead. Marcel> Unfortunately, BigInteger.isProbablePrime still contains a bug Marcel> in its implementation of the, I think, Lucas algorithm, which Marcel> renders a lot of primes as composites or even the other way Marcel> round (I can't remember at the moment). I seriously hope it generates false negatives, and not false positives; one is an inconvenience, the other is a vulnerability. Maybe instead we can just advocate GNU Classpath more vehemently, since its implementation doesn't suffer from these bugs (that we know of), nor from the glacial pace of Sun Microsystems. - -- Casey Marshall || csm@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFAjx6cgAuWMgRGsWsRAmIZAJ9wBkV5BHYnPxj+ETDDlQOG3zkwSQCePlh9 pLIeDkFgqg0wg7xFNCzIFYw= =As7x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnu-crypto-discuss mailing list gnu-crypto-discuss@xxxxxxx http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-crypto-discuss
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