view libtomcrypt/src/math/rand_prime.c @ 447:278805938dcf

Patch from Nicolai Ehemann to try binding before going to the background, so that if it exits early (because something's already listening etc) then it will return an exitcode of 1.
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:54:18 +0000
parents 0cbe8f6dbf9e
children f849a5ca2efc
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/* LibTomCrypt, modular cryptographic library -- Tom St Denis
 *
 * LibTomCrypt is a library that provides various cryptographic
 * algorithms in a highly modular and flexible manner.
 *
 * The library is free for all purposes without any express
 * guarantee it works.
 *
 * Tom St Denis, [email protected], http://libtomcrypt.com
 */
#include "tomcrypt.h"

/**
  @file rand_prime.c
  Generate a random prime, Tom St Denis
*/  

#define USE_BBS 1

int rand_prime(void *N, long len, prng_state *prng, int wprng)
{
   int            err, res, type;
   unsigned char *buf;

   LTC_ARGCHK(N != NULL);

   /* get type */
   if (len < 0) {
      type = USE_BBS;
      len = -len;
   } else {
      type = 0;
   }

   /* allow sizes between 2 and 512 bytes for a prime size */
   if (len < 2 || len > 512) { 
      return CRYPT_INVALID_PRIME_SIZE;
   }
   
   /* valid PRNG? Better be! */
   if ((err = prng_is_valid(wprng)) != CRYPT_OK) {
      return err; 
   }

   /* allocate buffer to work with */
   buf = XCALLOC(1, len);
   if (buf == NULL) {
       return CRYPT_MEM;
   }

   do {
      /* generate value */
      if (prng_descriptor[wprng].read(buf, len, prng) != (unsigned long)len) {
         XFREE(buf);
         return CRYPT_ERROR_READPRNG;
      }

      /* munge bits */
      buf[0]     |= 0x80 | 0x40;
      buf[len-1] |= 0x01 | ((type & USE_BBS) ? 0x02 : 0x00);
 
      /* load value */
      if ((err = mp_read_unsigned_bin(N, buf, len)) != CRYPT_OK) {
         XFREE(buf);
         return err;
      }

      /* test */
      if ((err = mp_prime_is_prime(N, 8, &res)) != CRYPT_OK) {
         XFREE(buf);
         return err;
      }
   } while (res == LTC_MP_NO);

#ifdef LTC_CLEAN_STACK
   zeromem(buf, len);
#endif

   XFREE(buf);
   return CRYPT_OK;
}
      


/* $Source: /cvs/libtom/libtomcrypt/src/math/rand_prime.c,v $ */
/* $Revision: 1.6 $ */
/* $Date: 2006/03/31 14:15:35 $ */