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-rw-r--r--cipher/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--cipher/primegen.c8
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/cipher/ChangeLog b/cipher/ChangeLog
index 7189caf3b..2e50b9bfa 100644
--- a/cipher/ChangeLog
+++ b/cipher/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-10-10 Werner Koch <[email protected]>
+
+ * primegen.c (gen_prime): Bail out if we try to generate a prime
+ with less than 16 bits.
+
2003-10-06 Werner Koch <[email protected]>
* primegen.c (gen_prime): Bail out if NBITS is zero. This is
diff --git a/cipher/primegen.c b/cipher/primegen.c
index d240d9620..9ee3436bf 100644
--- a/cipher/primegen.c
+++ b/cipher/primegen.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include "util.h"
#include "mpi.h"
#include "cipher.h"
+#include "i18n.h"
static int no_of_small_prime_numbers;
static MPI gen_prime( unsigned nbits, int mode, int randomlevel );
@@ -304,8 +305,11 @@ gen_prime( unsigned nbits, int secret, int randomlevel )
if( 0 && DBG_CIPHER )
log_debug("generate a prime of %u bits ", nbits );
- if (!nbits)
- log_fatal ("trying to generate a prime of zero bits\n");
+ if (nbits < 16)
+ {
+ log_error (_("can't generate a prime with less than %d bits\n"), 16);
+ exit (2);
+ }
if( !no_of_small_prime_numbers ) {
for(i=0; small_prime_numbers[i]; i++ )