This is a minor extension of the Gnu Multiprecision Library (GNU MP). It adds simultaneous modular exponentiation and fixed base modular exponentiation functionality to the set of integer functions (the mpz-functions), as well as special purpose primality testing routines.
GMP does contain primality testing routines, but these do not use cryptographically strong randomness and they do not allow fast testing or sieving for safe-primality.
Note that no attempt is made to make this secure against side-channel attacks, since there is no need for this type of protection in the applications for which this library was implemented.
For a detailed account of such algorithms, a good source is Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Menezes, Oorshot, and Vanstone, which is available for free.
The following assumes that you are using a distribution. Developers
should also read README_DEV.md.
If you are using a distribution, then you simply use
./configure
make
to build the library and an executable gmpmee that allows testing
and benchmarking some of the routines.
If you prefer to use the Clang compiler in
place of GCC for the native code, then you may use ./configure CC=clang instead of the above to enable it.
Caution: Please understand that although it seems that Clang works as well as GCC, switching compiler is a large change for mature software.
Use
make install
to install the library libgmpmee.{la,a,so} and the corresponding
header file gmpmee.h in the standard locations. See INSTALL for
details on other ways to invoke ./configure, e.g., to use a
user-local installation.
You may need to run sudo /sbin/ldconfig on some platforms which have
flawed implementations of the cache that stores locations of
libraries.
If you have done a standard install you may use the library by
including gmpmee.h and adding the flags -lgmp -lgmpmee. We could
for example compile a program foo.c using the library as
gcc foo.c -o foo -lgmpmee -lgmp
If you have done a non-standard installation you may need to update some environment variables.
You may use
make api
to build also some documentation using Doxygen (this assumes you have
installed doxygen). The API is not installed anywhere. You can copy
it to any location.
Minor bugs should be reported in the repository system as issues or bugs. Security critical bugs, vulnerabilities, etc should be reported directly to Verificatum Project. We will make best effort to disclose the information in a responsible way before the finder gets proper credit.