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| author | Bodo Möller <bodo@openssl.org> | 2001-03-08 16:53:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Bodo Möller <bodo@openssl.org> | 2001-03-08 16:53:30 +0000 |
| commit | ff612904d277b6e4f8118913e1278a1afc75e073 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d7b21f27c0150bb4962dacccf5ec81c1bcec007 /crypto/bn/bn_sqrt.c | |
| parent | 429cf462d06a164e803f46f1840d060a26812ba2 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/crypto/bn/bn_sqrt.c b/crypto/bn/bn_sqrt.c index 6e70e5c541..e2a1105dc8 100644 --- a/crypto/bn/bn_sqrt.c +++ b/crypto/bn/bn_sqrt.c @@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ BIGNUM *BN_mod_sqrt(BIGNUM *in, const BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p, BN_CTX *ctx) * using the Tonelli/Shanks algorithm (cf. Henri Cohen, "A Course * in Algebraic Computational Number Theory", algorithm 1.5.1). * 'p' must be prime! + * If 'a' is not a square, this is not necessarily detected by + * the algorithms; a bogus result must be expected in this case. */ { BIGNUM *ret = in; |