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diff --git a/security/p5-Crypt-Primes/pkg-descr b/security/p5-Crypt-Primes/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..eda828ea65b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/p5-Crypt-Primes/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +This module implements Ueli Maurer's algorithm for generating large +provable primes and secure parameters for public-key cryptosystems. +The generated primes are almost uniformly distributed over the set of +primes of the specified bitsize and expected time for generation is +less than the time required for generating a pseudo-prime of the same +size with Miller-Rabin tests. Detailed description and running time +analysis of the algorithm can be found in Maurer's paper[1]. + +Crypt::Primes is a pure perl implementation. It uses Math::Pari for +multiple precision integer arithmetic and number theoretic functions. +Random numbers are gathered with Crypt::Random, a perl interface to +/dev/u?random devices found on modern Unix operating systems. |