DH prime generation taking a long time
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
nmav at gnutls.org
Fri Oct 15 09:59:46 CEST 2010
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
>> The nettle code shouldn't have caused multiple reads to /dev/*random. It
>> reads 32 bytes on initialization from /dev/urandom and will read some
>> more after few hours. Which test causes this delay?
> Newly committed self-test tests/gendh.c triggers it too. Running strace
> on it reveals it is calling time() a lot, which suggests it is spending
> time in nettle/rnd.c. This is with GnuTLS built with Nettle as backend.
But do these calls actually cause a/the delay or the prime generation?
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