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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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