Algorithm used by BigInteger prime generator?

Tue Apr 20 21:28:00 GMT 1999

 I'm wondering whether you have to use BigNum.
Kaffe currently uses a GNU library, libgmp, and it doesn't
quite work. That is, serializing/deserializing works, and number are
correctly printed and compared, but more complex operations such as 
verifying a key using Sun's security classes don't work. (Which is
why apps such as Volanochat currently fail --- they can't verify their
license key.) I looked at it and suspect the problem might lie
in the differences between BigNum and GMP - given that the Java
classes are basically only wrappers to access the underlying 
package. Specifically, I was wondering if some of the invariants
concerning the representation of the magnitude and the location
of the MSB are the same. That's just a guess, though.
	- Godmar
>> > Does anybody know what algorithm the constructor
> > java.math.BigInteger.BigInteger(int bitLength, int certainty, Random
> > rnd) is supposed to use?
>> Sun's java.math implementation uses Colin Plumb's <colin@nyx.net>
> BigNum library <URL: ftp://skip.incog.com/pub/bnlib-1.1.tar.gz >.
>