Fast prime generation algorithms using proposed GCD test on mobile smart devices

Abstract

As mobile smart devices are widely used, mobile security becomes more and more important. However, the performance of these devices are not powerful enough to use the same security algorithms as PC's. Public key cryptosystem such as RSA needs big primes to enhance the security, however, a generating big primes takes a substantial time even on a PC. In this paper, we proposed two prime generation algorithms for mobile smart devices using GCD primality test. We analyzed and compared the running times of our algorithm with the widely used TD-MR combination on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The experimental results showed only a 2% error and our algorithm is about 20% faster than the TD-MR combination.