openbsd/src/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_generate_prime.3, branch OPENBSD_7_9_BASE

.Lb libcrypto ; OK tb@

2025-06-08T22:40:31+00:00

Adjust documentation for upcoming DSA_generate_parameters removal

2023-12-29T19:12:47+00:00

This removes any mention of DSA_generate_parameters in the manuals apart from a comment that it is intentionally undocumented and adapts cross references to DSA_generate_parameters_ex. The file itself will be moved in a second step.

primility -> primality

2023-05-12T08:18:13+00:00

ok tb@

Document recent changes in primality testing

2023-05-11T05:45:33+00:00

With input from beck and jsing

mandoc -Tlint tells me I forgot to zap a comma

2023-04-30T20:17:59+00:00

Remove documentation of BN_generate_prime(), BN_is_prime{,_fasttest}()

2023-04-30T19:24:42+00:00

Major overhaul.

2022-11-24T19:06:38+00:00

Remove many statements that are no longer true after tb@, in July, massively improved the algorithms used by these functions and also did some cleanup of the interface. Instead, explain many aspects that were missing. Also use more descriptive argument names, drop some redundancy, and improve ordering in various respects. Feedback and enthusiastic OK from tb@.

use n-bit consistently; ok schwarze for the principal of the idea,

2020-06-24T18:15:00+00:00

and for flagging which pages to check;

Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of

2019-08-25T19:24:00+00:00

not being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of the input. For larger primes this will result in more rounds of Miller-Rabin. The maximal error rate for primes with more than 1080 bits is lowered to 2^-128. Patch from Kurt Roeckx and Annie Yousar via OpenSSL commit feac7a1c Jul 25 18:55:16 2018 +0200, still under a free license. OK tb@.

delete references to ERR pages from SEE ALSO where such

2019-06-10T14:58:48+00:00

references were already given below RETURN VALUES right above