Extracted from Pike v7.4 release 117 at 2004-07-26.
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Crypto.dsa

Method Crypto.dsa()->nist_hash()


Method nist_hash

string nist_hash(bignum x)

Description

The (slow) NIST method of generating DSA primes. Algorithm 4.56 of Handbook of Applied Cryptography.