gensafeprime

Generate safe primes using OpenSSL (a prime p = 2*q+1, and q is prime too)


Keywords
prime, openssl, bignum, crypto
License
MIT
Install
pip install gensafeprime==1.0

Documentation

This module generates safe prime numbers using the OpenSSL library. A number p
is a safe prime number, if p is a prime number, and p = 2*q+1, and q is a prime
number too. These numbers are sometimes used in cryptography.

Written by Erik Tews <erik@datenzone.de>
Python 3 compatibility by Peter Wagenaar <sakartu@gmail.com>