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+<PRE>If I remember right, some versions of pgp used ElGamal, so that might serve as an open reference implementation. Not as good as test vectors but it's a widely used implementation.

+ paul

+On Dec 31, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Michael Rodler wrote:

+> Hello,

+>

+> I'd volunteer to write the unit test for ElGamal, but since ElGamal is

+> not standardized, it's pretty hard to find any public test vectors.

+> (quick google search reveals nothing) So you probably need to generate

+> them yourself and I'm not sure how to do that properly. (generate using

+> another library i.e. bouncycastle or using some algebra system i.e.

+> Mathematica, which is probably less error prone?)

+>

+> If anyone can point me into the right direction, I'd be happy to help.

+> (Obviously not today, so cheers and happy new year ;)

+>

+> Michael

+>

+> On 2010-12-31 06:11, Thorsten Behrens wrote:

+>> Crypto.Random.random has unit tests now. A few notes on that:

+>> - random.shuffle() was broken, it had a TypeError and an

+>> IndexError. Not my doing, that's always been the case. That's been fixed.

+>> - random.sample() does not work on 2.1. Not my doing, that's always

+>> been the case. I will not fix this. Others are welcome to.

+>> - random does not implement the full compliment of functions that

+>> Python offers, it is a much smaller subset

+>> - I somehow doubt anyone ever actually used this interface. We may

+>> declare it "static for backwards compatibility" and leave well enough alone.

+>>

+>> I will not write unit tests for qNEW, though others are welcome to.

+>>

+>> We still need unit tests for ElGamal and AllOrNothing. Anyone?

+>>

+>> Thorsten

+>>

+>> On 12/29/2010 4:28 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote:

+>>> Now that we have a working pycrypto on Python 3.x, it's time to see what

+>>> we don't have unit tests for. See

+>>> <A HREF="https://bugs.launchpad.net/pycrypto/+bug/335995">https://bugs.launchpad.net/pycrypto/+bug/335995</A> for results.

+>>>

+>>> Currently, the following are not included in unit testing at all:

+>>>

+>>> Protocol/AllOrNothing

+>>> PublicKey/ElGamal

+>>> PublicKey/qNEW

+>>> random/random

+>>>

+>>> I'd love some unit tests for those. With public test vectors, please,

+>>> not test vectors derived from pycrypto.

+>>>

+>>> Volunteers?

+>>>

+>>> Thorsten

+>>>

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