Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions

Re:Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions by phkahler on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:13AM (#17808861)

If the attacker has access to your prime number generator, how does a recommendation to change anything (like the primality test) in your system help? While interesting this seems like a thin layer of protection. OTOH every small thing is a step in the right direction right?

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Re:Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions by jerf on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:40AM (#17809005)

This is primarily for when the other party in a transaction provides you a number that is putatively prime. It was not generated by "your" generator.

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Re:Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions by phkahler on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:26PM (#17815109)

The other party has access to our communications. Why would they want to use weak encryption?

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