Commit 7c7126cf authored by Adam Langley's avatar Adam Langley

crypto/rsa: drop the primality check in crypto/rsa.Validate.

This check is expensive and adversely impacts startup times for some
servers with several, large RSA keys.

It was nice to have, but it's not really going to stop a targetted
attack and was never designed to – hopefully people's private keys
aren't attacker controlled!

Overall I think the feeling is that people would rather have the CPU
time back.

Fixes #6626.

Change-Id: I0143a58c9f22381116d4ca2a3bbba0d28575f3e5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5641Reviewed-by: default avatarBrad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Adam Langley <agl@golang.org>
parent ec92af65
......@@ -102,16 +102,6 @@ func (priv *PrivateKey) Validate() error {
return err
}
// Check that the prime factors are actually prime. Note that this is
// just a sanity check. Since the random witnesses chosen by
// ProbablyPrime are deterministic, given the candidate number, it's
// easy for an attack to generate composites that pass this test.
for _, prime := range priv.Primes {
if !prime.ProbablyPrime(20) {
return errors.New("crypto/rsa: prime factor is composite")
}
}
// Check that Πprimes == n.
modulus := new(big.Int).Set(bigOne)
for _, prime := range priv.Primes {
......
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