| commit | 7a62ab1938965de5cf9d2991ae6b57df781e63d1 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | David Benjamin <davidben@google.com> | Mon Apr 02 12:45:03 2018 -0400 |
| committer | Adam Langley <agl@google.com> | Mon Apr 02 18:29:56 2018 +0000 |
| tree | 2f3d5f071f2ccc09b21793c6da732a56f8267fa2 | |
| parent | 5b05988add289bd9a2dc22dc82a0072be9f22236 [diff] |
Clarify BN_prime_checks is only for random candidates. The relevant result (Damgård, Landrock, and Pomerance, Average Case Error Estimates for the Strong Probably Prime Test) is only applicable for randomly selected candidates. It relies on there being very few odd composites with many false witnesses. (If testing an adversarially-selected composite, false witnesses are bounded by ϕ(n)/4 for n != 9, so one needs about 40 iterations for a 2^-80 false positive rate.) Change-Id: I2a063dac5f9042dcb9e6affee8d2ae575f2238a9 Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/26972 Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.
Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.
Programs ship their own copies of BoringSSL when they use it and we update everything as needed when deciding to make API changes. This allows us to mostly avoid compromises in the name of compatibility. It works for us, but it may not work for you.
BoringSSL arose because Google used OpenSSL for many years in various ways and, over time, built up a large number of patches that were maintained while tracking upstream OpenSSL. As Google's product portfolio became more complex, more copies of OpenSSL sprung up and the effort involved in maintaining all these patches in multiple places was growing steadily.
Currently BoringSSL is the SSL library in Chrome/Chromium, Android (but it's not part of the NDK) and a number of other apps/programs.
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