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@@ -20,11 +20,15 @@ generation becomes much faster. This implies a change for the callback functions in DSA_is_prime - and DSA_generate_parameters: They are now called once for each - positive witness in the Rabin-Miller test, not just occasionally - in the inner loop; and the parameters to the callback function now - provide an iteration count for the outer loop rather than for the - current invocation of the inner loop. + and DSA_generate_parameters: The callback function is called once + for each positive witness in the Rabin-Miller test, not just + occasionally in the inner loop; and the parameters to the + callback function now provide an iteration count for the outer + loop rather than for the current invocation of the inner loop. + DSA_generate_parameters additionally can call the callback + function with an 'iteration count' of -1, meaning that a + candidate has passed the trial division test (when q is generated + from an application-provided seed, trial division is skipped). [Bodo Moeller] *) New function BN_is_prime_fasttest that optionally does trial |