#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8
#
cs1001.py , Tel Aviv University, Spring 2020
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# ## Recitation 8
# We continued with another recurssion question.
# We reviewed some properties of prime numbers and used them for primality testing. We reviewed the Diffie-Hellman protocol for finding a shared secret key and also tried to crack it.
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# ### Takeaways:
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# - The probabilistic function is_prime, that uses Fermat's primality test, can be used to detect primes quickly and efficiently, but has a (very small) probability of error. Its time complexity is $O(n^3)$, where $n$ is the number of bits of the input.
# - The DH protocol relies on two main principles: the following equality $(g^{a}\mod p)^b \mod p = g^{ab} \mod p $ and the (believed) hardness of the discrete log problem (given $g,p$, and $x = g^{a} \mod p$ finding $a$ is hard). Make sure you understand the details of the protocol.
# #### Code for printing several outputs in one cell (not part of the recitation):
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from IPython.core.interactiveshell import InteractiveShell
InteractiveShell.ast_node_interactivity = "all"
# ## Recursion: another example
# ## $N$-Queens
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# The $N$ queens problem is to determine how many
# possibilities are there to legally place $N$ queens on an $N$-by-$N$ chess
# board. Legally means no queen threatens another queen.
#
#
# Solution:
# We build the solution incrementally, column by column.
# We maintain a partial solution (implemented as a list), which is initially empty.
#
# The function $legal(partial, i)$ is given:
# - a partial solution placing the first $len(partial)$ queens on the leftmost columns
# - a positive integer $0\leq i 1$. Think, why is $b$ a witness of compositeness? Let $\mathrm{gcd}(m,b) = r$, then by definition $r ~|~ m$. As $r \leq b < m$ we get that $r$ is a factor of $m$ and thus $m$ is composite.
# * Fermat's primality test defines another set of witness of compositeness - a number $1 < a < m$ is a Fermat witness if $a^{m-1} (\textrm{mod}\ m) \not\equiv 1$
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# Why go through all of this work? Our tactic would be to randomly draw a number $b \in {1,\ldots, m - 1}$ and hope that $b$ is some witness of compositeness. Clearly, we'd like our witness pool to be as large as possible.
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# Now, if $m$ is a composite number, let $\mathrm{FACT}_m, \mathrm{GCD}_m, \mathrm{FERM}_m$ be the set of prime factors, GCD witnesses and Fermat witnesses for $m$'s compositeness. It is not hard to show that $$\mathrm{FACT}_m \subseteq \mathrm{GCD}_m \subseteq \mathrm{FERM}_m$$
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# But the real strength of Fermat's primality test comes from the fact that if $m$ is composite, then apart from very rare cases (where $n$ is a Carmichael number) it holds that $|\mathrm{FERM}_m| \geq m/2$. That is - a random number is a Fermat witness w.p. at least $1/2$.
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# A side note (for reference only) - Carmichael numbers are exactly the composite numbers $m$ where $\mathrm{GCD}_m = \mathrm{FERM}_m$
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# #### Every factor of a composite number is a Fermat's witness
# Let $m$ be a composite number and write $m = ab$ for some $a,b>1$. We claim that $a$ is a Fermat witness. To see this, assume towards contradiction that $a^{m-1} (\textrm{mod}\ m) \equiv 1$, i.e. $a^{m-1} = c\cdot m + 1= c \cdot a \cdot b + 1$ for some $c \geq 1$.
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# Rearrange the above to get $a(a^{m-2} - c\cdot b) = 1$. However, $a > 1$ and $(a^{m-2} - c\cdot b) \in \mathbb{Z}$, a contradiction.
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#
# #### Primality test using Fermat's witness
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# We can use Fermat's little theorem in order test whether a given number $m$ is prime. That is, we can test whether we find a Fermat's witness $a\in\mathrm{FERM}_m$ for compositeness. Note that if the number has $n$ bits than testing all possible $a$-s will require $O(2^n)$ iterations (a lot!).
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# Instead, we will try 100 random $a$-s in the range and see if one works as a Fermat's witness.
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import random
def is_prime(m, show_witness=False):
""" probabilistic test for m's compositeness """''
for i in range(0, 100):
a = random.randint(1, m - 1) # a is a random integer in [1..m-1]
if pow(a, m - 1, m) != 1:
if show_witness: # caller wishes to see a witness
print(m, "is composite", "\n", a, "is a witness, i=", i + 1)
return False
return True
# For $a,b,c$ of at most $n$ bits each, time complexity of modpower is $O(n^3)$
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def modpower(a, b, c):
""" computes a**b modulo c, using iterated squaring """
result = 1
while b > 0: # while b is nonzero
if b % 2 == 1: # b is odd
result = (result * a) % c
a = (a*a) % c
b = b // 2
return result
# #### Runtime analysis:
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# * The main loop runs over $b$, dividing $b \to b/2$ at each iteration, so it runs $O(n)$ times.
# * In each iteration we do:
# * One operation of $b%2$ in $O(1)$ time
# * One operation of $b/2$ in $O(1)$ time
# * At most two multiplication and two modulu operations
# * Multiplication of two $n$ bit numbers runs in time $O(n^2)$
# * Modulu can be implemented by addition, division and multiplication: $a \textrm{ mod } b = a - (a // b) b$ and division runs in time $O(n^2)$ same as multiplication
# * Finally, the modulu operation keeps all numbers at most $n$ bits, thus the running time does not increase with each iteration
# * In total - $O(n^3)$
#
# #### The probability of error:
# First, notice that if the function says that an imput number $m$ is not prime, then it is true.
# The function can make a mistake only is the case where a number $m$ is not prime, and is excidentally categorized by the function as prime. This can happen if all $100$ $a$'s that the function tried were not witnesses.
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# A quick computation shows that if $m$ is **not** a Charmichael number then at least $\frac{1}{2}$ of all possible $a$s are witnesses, so in almost all cases the probability for error is $(\frac{1}{2})^{100}$ (this is extremely low).
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# #### Failing over Carmichael numbers
# In the rare case where we get a Carmichael number as input we have no guarantee on the performance of the test. In the following example we test whether the Carmichael number $N$ (which is composite) is prime or not using our test.
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# The number $N$ comes courtesy of [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael_number#Overview)
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# p is a large prime:
p = 29674495668685510550154174642905332730771991799853043350995075531276838753171770199594238596428121188033664754218345562493168782883
# N is a Carmichael number (and is obviously composite):
N = p*(313*(p-1)+1)*(353*(p-1) + 1)
is_prime(N)
# #### Testing the prime number theorem: For a large n, a number of n bits is prime with a prob. of O(1/n)
# We decide on the size of the sample (to avoid testing all possible $2^{n-1}$ numbers of $n$ bits) and test whether each number we sample is prime. Then we divide the number of primes with the size of the sample.
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def prob_prime(n, sample):
cnt = 0
for i in range(sample):
m = random.randint(2**(n-1), 2**n - 1)
cnt += is_prime(m)
return cnt / sample
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prob_prime(2, 10**4)
prob_prime(3, 10**4)
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prob_prime(100, 10**4)
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prob_prime(200, 10**4)
# Diffie Hellman from lecture
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# #### The protocol as code
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def DH_exchange(p):
""" generates a shared DH key """
g = random.randint(1, p - 1)
a = random.randint(1, p - 1)# Alice's secret
b = random.randint(1, p - 1)# Bob's secret
x = pow(g, a, p)
y = pow(g, b, p)
key_A = pow(y, a, p)
key_B = pow(x, b, p)
#the next line is different from lecture
return g, a, b, x, y, key_A #key_A=key_B
# #### Find a prime number
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def find_prime(n):
""" find random n-bit long prime """
while(True):
candidate = random.randrange(2**(n-1), 2**n)
if is_prime(candidate):
return candidate
# Demostration:
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import random
p = find_prime(10)
print(p)
g, a, b, x, y, key = DH_exchange(p)
g, a, b, x, y, key
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print(pow(g, a, p))
print(pow(x, b, p))
# #### Crack the Diffie Hellman code
# There is no known way to find $a$ efficiently, so we try the naive one: iterating over all $a$-s and cheking whether the equation $g^a \mod p = x$ holds for them.
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# If we found $a'$ that satisfies the condition but is not the original $a$, does it matter?
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# The time complexity of crack_DH is $O(2^nn^3)$
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def crack_DH(p, g, x):
''' find secret "a" that satisfies g**a%p == x
Not feasible for large p '''
for a in range(1, p - 1):
if a % 100000 == 0:
print(a) #just to estimate running time
if pow(g, a, p) == x:
return a
return None #should never get here
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g, a, b, x, y, key = DH_exchange(p)
print(a)
crack_DH(p, g, x)
# #### Trying to crack the protocol with a 100 bit prime
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import random
p = find_prime(100)
print(p)
g, a, b, x, y, key = DH_exchange(p)
print(g, a, b, x, y, key)
crack_DH(p, g, x)
# Analyzing the nubmer of years it will take to crack the protocol if $a$ is found at the end (assuming iterating over 100000 $a$s takes a second)
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a
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a//100000/60/60/24/365
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