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reaperhulk committed Jul 9, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -1779,7 +1779,7 @@ def load_dh_private_numbers(self, numbers):
# DH_check will return DH_NOT_SUITABLE_GENERATOR if p % 24 does not
# equal 11 when the generator is 2 (a quadratic nonresidue).
# We want to ignore that error because p % 24 == 23 is also fine.
# Specifically, it is a quadratic residue. Within the context of
# Specifically, g is then a quadratic residue. Within the context of
# Diffie-Hellman this means it can only generate half the possible
# values. That sounds bad, but quadratic nonresidues leak a bit of
# the key to the attacker in exchange for having the full key space
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