Safe prime numbers in Python

[Tim Churches]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 03:35, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     >> Here's what I came up with using gmpy:
>     ...
> 
>     Scott> I suspect it might be faster if you looked for the lower prime:

Many thanks to Skip Montanaro and Scott Daniels for these suggestions. I
did not suspect that the gmpy library would have functions for prime
finding or testing. With a few days of processing I'll have more safe
primes than I'll ever need. Next step is to find all quadratic residuals
modulo p (where p is a safe prime). It notice that GMP has a function to
calculate the Legendre symbol (which hopefully gmpy wraps), so it should
be simple. Fab!

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Tim C

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