Crates.io | pumpkin |
lib.rs | pumpkin |
version | 2.0.1 |
source | src |
created_at | 2015-10-21 02:10:50.899271 |
updated_at | 2018-03-19 14:53:53.795465 |
description | A cryptographically secure prime number generator |
homepage | https://zcdziura.github.io/pumpkin/pumpkin |
repository | https://github.com/zcdziura/pumpkin |
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A random number generator for generating large prime numbers, suitable for cryptography.
Since I began writing this library around Halloween of 2015, I wanted to choose a name that was vaguely related to the holiday. Because "pumpkin" and "prime" both begin with the letter 'p', I decided to use that.
pumpkin
is a cryptographically-secure, random number generator, useful for
generating large prime numbers (at least 512-bits long). On the back-end,
pumpkin
uses the wonderful ramp library for
storing the large numbers. pumpkin
generates primes very quickly. In our
testing, primes were generated anywhere between 1s and 5s on average, though
of course your mileage may vary.
Add the following to your Cargo.toml
file:
pumpkin = "2.0.*"
Note that pumpkin
requires the nightly
Rust compiler.
extern crate pumpkin;
use pumpkin::Prime;
fn main() {
let p = Prime::new(2048); // Generate a new 2048-bit prime number
let q = Prime::new(2048);
let e = p * q;
println!("{}", e);
/*
* 75222035638256552797269351238215022250546763213674706... Some massive
* 4096-bit number.
*/
}
You can also initialize your own OsRng
and generate Prime
s from that.
extern crate pumpkin;
extern crate rand;
use pumpkin::Prime;
use rand::OsRng;
fn main() {
let mut rngesus = match OsRng::new() {
Ok(rng) => rng,
Err(e) => panic!("Error trying to initializing RNG: {}", e)
};
let p = Prime::from_rng(2048, &mut rngesus);
let q = Prime::from_rng(2048, &mut rngesus);
let e = p * q;
println!("{}", e);
/*
* 75222035638256552797269351238215022250546763213674706... Some massive
* 4096-bit number.
*/
}
Primes
are generated in much the same way as primes generated by GnuPG
:
Create a large candidate number of a given bit-length. All Primes
must
be at least 512-bits long.
Divide the candidate number by the first 1,000 prime numbers.
Test the candidate number with Fermat's Little Theorem.
Finally, run five iterations of the Miller-Rabin Primality Test.
Primes
are seeded by rand::OsRng
, which receives its entropy via the
operating system's entropy source (such as /dev/urandom
). Thus, because we
can be confident that the generated candidate number is truly random (or as
close to truly random as the user can hope), we don't need to do more than five
iterations of the Miller-Rabin test to ensure primality.
Primes
are simple "newtype" structs; that is, it is a tuple-like struct
surrounding ramp's
Int
type. Primes
have all of the basic algebraic and logical
operators implemented, thus allowing you to do any operation that you would
require.
pumpkin
is dual-licenced under the MIT and Unlicense. Should you wish to
contribute updates to the project, please consider signing the included WAVER
file with your cryptographic digital signature (as allowed by your country's
laws). Doing so will release your changes back into the public domain to be used
freely by all. I did so with this project, and it would mean a lot if you did
too!
To sign the WAIVER
, execute the following commands:
$ gpg -sba -u $YOUR_SIGNING_KEY WAIVER
$ cat WAIVER.asc >> WAIVER.sigs && rm WAIVER.asc