/* LibTomMath, multiple-precision integer library -- Tom St Denis * * LibTomMath is a library that provides multiple-precision * integer arithmetic as well as number theoretic functionality. * * The library was designed directly after the MPI library by * Michael Fromberger but has been written from scratch with * additional optimizations in place. * * The library is free for all purposes without any express * guarantee it works. * * Tom St Denis, tomstdenis@iahu.ca, http://math.libtomcrypt.org */ #include /* makes a truly random prime of a given size (bytes), * call with bbs = 1 if you want it to be congruent to 3 mod 4 * * You have to supply a callback which fills in a buffer with random bytes. "dat" is a parameter you can * have passed to the callback (e.g. a state or something). This function doesn't use "dat" itself * so it can be NULL * * The prime generated will be larger than 2^(8*size). */ /* this sole function may hold the key to enslaving all mankind! */ int mp_prime_random(mp_int *a, int t, int size, int bbs, ltm_prime_callback cb, void *dat) { unsigned char *tmp; int res, err; /* sanity check the input */ if (size <= 0) { return MP_VAL; } /* we need a buffer of size+1 bytes */ tmp = XMALLOC(size+1); if (tmp == NULL) { return MP_MEM; } /* fix MSB */ tmp[0] = 1; do { /* read the bytes */ if (cb(tmp+1, size, dat) != size) { err = MP_VAL; goto error; } /* fix the LSB */ tmp[size] |= (bbs ? 3 : 1); /* read it in */ if ((err = mp_read_unsigned_bin(a, tmp, size+1)) != MP_OKAY) { goto error; } /* is it prime? */ if ((err = mp_prime_is_prime(a, t, &res)) != MP_OKAY) { goto error; } } while (res == MP_NO); err = MP_OKAY; error: XFREE(tmp); return err; }