NTTL Function - RandomPrime

Description

Generate a random prime number.

Header

<nttl/randomPrime.h>

Signature

template<class T>
void
RandomPrime( T *prime, size_t digits, size_t security = 20 )

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
prime	T *	Pointer to the variable that will contain the generated prime.
digits	size_t	The desired size of the generated prime.  This number is the number of decimal digits.
security	size_t	(optional)  The security parameter for the primality testing algorithm.   This is passed directly to the IsPrime function.   If this parameter is omitted, it defaults to 20.

Returns

( none )

Example

#include <nttl/randomPrime.h> ... long p = RandomPrime( 7 );