gmp (version 0.5-4)

Oakley: RFC 2409 Oakley Groups - Parameters for Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

Description

RFC 2409 standardizes global unique prime numbers and generators for the purpose of secure asymmetric key exchange on the Internet.

Usage

Oakley1
Oakley2

Value

• Oakley1 returns an object of class bigz for a 768 bit Diffie-Hellman group. The generator is stored as value with the respective prime number as modulus attribute.

  Oakley2 returns an object of class bigz for a 1024 bit Diffie-Hellman group. The generator is stored as value with the respective prime number as modulus attribute.

References

The Internet Key Exchange (RFC 2409), Nov. 1998

Examples

packageDescription("gmp") # {possibly useful for debugging}

data(Oakley1)
(M1 <- modulus(Oakley1))
isprime(M1)# '1' : "probably prime"
sizeinbase(M1)#  309 digits