From: Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 23:29:30 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Truelly Random Numbers
Message-ID: <199603031511.KAA20026@bb.hks.net>
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Timothy C May wrote:

> In some PK code I did several years ago in Mathematica, the primes for the
> RSA modulus were found by picking a "random" (more on this later) starting
> point and then counting up from there, testing for primality (actually,
> pseudoprimality, technically). As one would expect, primes are found fairly
> quickly.

Surely the process of counting up until you get a prime means
that the chances of getting certain primes are greater than
others (eg. 17 is more likely than 19) ?

Gary
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