Math::Prime::Util::GMP - Utilities related to prime numbers and factoring, using GMP
Version 0.18
use Math::Prime::Util::GMP ':all'; my $n = "115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639937"; # This doesn't impact the operation of the module at all, but does let you # enter big number arguments directly as well as enter (e.g.): 2**2048 + 1. use bigint; # These return 0 for composite, 2 for prime, and 1 for probably prime # Numbers under 2^64 will return 0 or 2. # is_prob_prime does a BPSW primality test for numbers > 2^64 # is_prime adds some MR tests and a quick test to try to prove the result # is_provable_prime will spend a lot of effort on proving primality say "$n is probably prime" if is_prob_prime($n); say "$n is ", qw(composite prob_prime def_prime)[is_prime($n)]; say "$n is definitely prime" if is_provable_prime($n) == 2; # Miller-Rabin and strong Lucas-Selfridge pseudoprime tests say "$n is a prime or spsp-2/7/61" if is_strong_pseudoprime($n, 2, 7, 61); say "$n is a prime or slpsp" if is_strong_lucas_pseudoprime($n); say "$n is a prime or eslpsp" if is_extra_strong_lucas_pseudoprime($n); # Return array reference to primes in a range. my $aref = primes( 10 ** 200, 10 ** 200 + 10000 ); $next = next_prime($n); # next prime > n $prev = prev_prime($n); # previous prime < n # Primorials and lcm say "23# is ", primorial(23); say "The product of the first 47 primes is ", pn_primorial(47); say "lcm(1..1000) is ", consecutive_integer_lcm(1000); # Find prime factors of big numbers @factors = factor(5465610891074107968111136514192945634873647594456118359804135903459867604844945580205745718497); # Finer control over factoring. # These stop after finding one factor or exceeding their limit. # # optional arguments o1, o2, ... @factors = trial_factor($n); # test up to o1 @factors = prho_factor($n); # no more than o1 rounds @factors = pbrent_factor($n); # no more than o1 rounds @factors = holf_factor($n); # no more than o1 rounds @factors = squfof_factor($n); # no more than o1 rounds @factors = pminus1_factor($n); # o1 = smoothness limit, o2 = stage 2 limit @factors = ecm_factor($n); # o1 = B1, o2 = # of curves @factors = qs_factor($n); # (no arguments)
A set of utilities related to prime numbers, using GMP. This includes primality tests, getting primes in a range, and factoring.
While it certainly can be used directly, the main purpose of this module is for Math::Prime::Util. That module will automatically load this one if it is installed, greatly speeding up many of its operations on big numbers.
Inputs and outputs for big numbers are via strings, so you do not need to use a bigint package in your program. However if you do use bigints, inputs will be converted internally so there is no need to convert before a call. Output results are returned as either Perl scalars (for native-size) or strings (for bigints). Math::Prime::Util tries to reconvert all strings back into the callers bigint type if possible, which makes it more convenient for calculations.
The various is_*_pseudoprime tests are more appropriately called is_*_probable_prime or is_*_prp. They return 1 if the input is a probable prime based on their test. The naming convention is historical and follows Pari, Math::Primality, and some other math packages. The modern definition of pseudoprime is a composite that passes the test, rather than any number.
is_*_pseudoprime
is_*_probable_prime
is_*_prp
my $prob_prime = is_prob_prime($n); # Returns 0 (composite), 2 (prime), or 1 (probably prime)
Takes a positive number as input and returns back either 0 (composite), 2 (definitely prime), or 1 (probably prime).
For inputs below 2^64 the test is deterministic, so the possible return values are 0 (composite) or 2 (definitely prime).
2^64
For inputs above 2^64, a probabilistic test is performed. Only 0 (composite) and 1 (probably prime) are returned. The current implementation uses the Baillie-PSW (BPSW) test. There is a possibility that composites may be returned marked prime, but since the test was published in 1980, not a single BPSW pseudoprime has been found, so it is extremely likely to be prime. While we believe (Pomerance 1984) that an infinite number of counterexamples exist, there is a weak conjecture (Martin) that none exist under 10000 digits.
In more detail, we are using the extra-strong Lucas test (Grantham 2000) using the Baillie parameter selection method (see OEIS A217719). Previous versions of this module used the strong Lucas test with Selfridge parameters, but the extra-strong version produces fewer pseudoprimes while running 1.2 - 1.5x faster. It is slightly stronger than the test used in Pari.
say "$n is prime!" if is_prime($n);
Takes a positive number as input and returns back either 0 (composite), 2 (definitely prime), or 1 (probably prime). Composites will act exactly like is_prob_prime, as will numbers less than 2^64. For numbers larger than 2^64, some additional tests are performed on probable primes to see if they can be proven by another means.
is_prob_prime
As with "is_prob_prime", a BPSW test is first performed. If this indicates "probably prime" then a small number of Miller-Rabin tests with random bases are performed. For numbers under 200 bits, a quick BLS75 n-1 primality proof is attempted. This is tuned to give up if the result cannot be quickly determined, and results in approximately 30% success rate at 128-bits.
n-1
The result is that many numbers will return 2 (definitely prime), and the numbers that return 1 (probably prime) have gone through more tests than "is_prob_prime" while not taking too long.
For cryptographic key generation, you may want even more testing for probable primes (NIST recommends a few more additional M-R tests than we perform). The function "miller_rabin_random" is made for this. Alternately, a different test such as "is_frobenius_underwood_pseudoprime" can be used. Even better, use "is_provable_prime" which should be reasonably fast for sizes under 2048 bits. Typically for key generation one wants random primes, and there are many functions for that.
say "$n is definitely prime!" if is_provable_prime($n) == 2;
Takes a positive number as input and returns back either 0 (composite), 2 (definitely prime), or 1 (probably prime). A great deal of effort is taken to return either 0 or 2 for all numbers.
The current method first uses BPSW and a small number of Miller-Rabin tests with random bases to weed out composites and provide a deterministic answer for tiny numbers (under 2^64). A quick BLS75 n-1 test is attempted, followed by ECPP.
The time required for primes of different input sizes on a circa-2009 workstation averages about 3ms for 30-digits, 5ms for 40-digit, 20ms for 60-digit, 50ms for 80-digit, 100ms for 100-digit, 2s for 200-digit, and 400-digit inputs about a minute. Expect a lot of time variation for larger inputs. You can see progress indication if verbose is turned on (some at level 1, and a lot at level 2).
3ms
5ms
20ms
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A certificate can be obtained along with the result using the "is_provable_prime_with_cert" method. There is no appreciable extra performance cost for returning a certificate.
Takes a positive number as input and returns back an array with two elements. The result will be one of:
(0, '') The input is composite. (1, '') The input is probably prime but we could not prove it. This is a failure in our ability to factor some necessary element in a reasonable time, not a significant proof failure (in other words, it remains a probable prime). (2, '...') The input is prime, and the certificate contains all the information necessary to verify this.
The certificate is a text representation containing all the necessary information to verify the primality of the input in a reasonable time. The result can be used with "verify_prime" in Math::Prime::Util for verification. Proof types used include:
ECPP BLS3 BLS15 BLS5 Small
my $maybe_prime = is_strong_pseudoprime($n, 2); my $probably_prime = is_strong_pseudoprime($n, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17);
Takes a positive number as input and one or more bases. Returns 1 if the input is a prime or a strong pseudoprime to all of the bases, and 0 if not. The base must be a positive integer. This is often called the Miller-Rabin test.
If 0 is returned, then the number really is a composite. If 1 is returned, then it is either a prime or a strong pseudoprime to all the given bases. Given enough distinct bases, the chances become very strong that the number is actually prime.
Both the input number and the bases may be big integers. If base modulo n <= 1 or base modulo n = n-1, then the result will be 1. This allows the bases to be larger than n if desired, while still returning meaningful results. For example,
is_strong_pseudoprime(367, 1101)
would incorrectly return 0 if this was not done properly. A 0 result should be returned only if n is composite, regardless of the base.
This is usually used in combination with other tests to make either stronger tests (e.g. the strong BPSW test) or deterministic results for numbers less than some verified limit (e.g. Jaeschke showed in 1993 that no more than three selected bases are required to give correct primality test results for any 32-bit number). Given the small chances of passing multiple bases, there are some math packages that just use multiple MR tests for primality testing, though in the early 1990s almost all serious software switched to the BPSW test.
Even numbers other than 2 will always return 0 (composite). While the algorithm works with even input, most sources define it only on odd input. Returning composite for all non-2 even input makes the function match most other implementations including Math::Primality's is_strong_pseudoprime function.
is_strong_pseudoprime
my $maybe_prime = miller_rabin_random($n, 10); # 10 random bases
Takes a positive number (n) as input and a positive number (k) of bases to use. Performs k Miller-Rabin tests using uniform random bases between 2 and n-2. This is the correct way to perform k Miller-Rabin tests, rather than the common but broken method of using the first k primes.
n
k
n-2
An optional third argument may be given, which is a seed to use. The seed should be a number either in decimal, binary with a leading 0b, hex with a leading 0x, or octal with a leading 0. It will be converted to a GMP integer, so may be large. Typically this is not necessary, but cryptographic applications may prefer the ability to use this, and it allows repeatable test results.
0b
0x
0
There is no check for duplicate bases. Input sizes below 65-bits make little sense for this function since is_prob_prime is deterministic at that size. For numbers of 65+ bits, the chance of duplicate bases is quite small. The exponentiation approximation for the birthday problem gives a probability of less than 2e-16 for 100 random bases to have a duplicate with a 65-bit input, and less than 2e-35 with a 128-bit input.
Takes a positive number as input, and returns 1 if the input is a standard or strong Lucas probable prime. The Selfridge method of choosing D, P, and Q are used (some sources call this a Lucas-Selfridge test). This is one half of the BPSW primality test (the Miller-Rabin strong probable prime test with base 2 being the other half). The canonical BPSW test (page 1401 of Baillie and Wagstaff (1980)) uses the strong Lucas test with Selfridge parameters, but in practice a variety of Lucas tests with different parameters are used by tests calling themselves BPSW.
The standard Lucas test implemented here corresponds to the Lucas test described in FIPS 186-4 section C.3.3, though uses a slightly more efficient calculation. Since the standard Lucas-Selfridge test is a subset of the strong Lucas-Selfridge test, I recommend using the strong test rather than the standard test for cryptographic purposes. It is often slightly faster, has over 4x fewer pseudoprimes, and is the method recommended by Baillie and Wagstaff in their 1980 paper.
Takes a positive number as input, and returns 1 if the input is an extra-strong Lucas probable prime. This is defined in Grantham (2000), and is a slightly more stringent test than the strong Lucas test, though because different parameters are used the pseudoprimes are not a subset. As expected by the extra conditions, the number of pseudoprimes is less than 2/3 that of the strong Lucas-Selfridge test. Runtime performance is 1.2 to 1.5x faster than the strong Lucas test.
The parameters are selected using the Baillie-OEIS method:
P = 3; Q = 1; while ( jacobi( P*P-4, n ) != -1 ) P += 1;
Takes a positive number as input and returns 1 if the input is an "almost" extra-strong Lucas probable prime. This is the classic extra-strong Lucas test but without calculating the U sequence. This makes it very fast, although as the input increases in size the time converges to the conventional extra-strong implementation: at 30 digits this routine is about 15% faster, at 300 digits it is only 2% faster.
With the current implementations, there is little reason to prefer this unless trying to reproduce specific results. The extra-strong implementation has been optimized to use similar features, removing most of the performance advantage.
An optional second argument (must be between 1 and 256) indicates the increment amount for P parameter selection. The default value of one yields the method described in "is_extra_strong_lucas_pseudoprime". A value of 2 yields the method used in Pari.
Because the U = 0 condition is ignored, this produces about 5% more pseudoprimes than the extra-strong Lucas test. However this is still only 66% of the number produced by the strong Lucas-Selfridge test. No BPSW counterexamples have been found with any of the Lucas tests described.
U = 0
Takes a positive number as input, and returns 1 if the input passes the minimal lambda+2 test (see Underwood 2012 "Quadratic Compositeness Tests"), where (L+2)^(n-1) = 5 + 2x mod (n, L^2 - Lx + 1). There are no known counterexamples, but this is not a well studied test.
(L+2)^(n-1) = 5 + 2x mod (n, L^2 - Lx + 1)
The computational cost is about 2.5x the cost of a strong pseudoprime test (this will vary somewhat with platform and input size). It is typically a little slower than an extra-strong Lucas test, and faster than a strong Lucas test.
Given a positive number input, returns 0 (composite), 2 (definitely prime), or 1 (probably prime), using the BPSW primality test (extra-strong variant).
This function does the extra-strong BPSW test and nothing more. That is, it will skip all pretests and any extra work that the "is_prob_prime" test may add.
say "$n is definitely prime" if is_aks_prime($n);
Takes a positive number as input, and returns 1 if the input passes the Agrawal-Kayal-Saxena (AKS) primality test. This is a deterministic unconditional primality test which runs in polynomial time for general input.
In theory, AKS is extremely important. In practice, it is essentially useless. Estimated run time for a 150 digit input is about 9 years, making the case that while the algorithmic complexity growth is polynomial, the constants are ludicrously high. There are some ideas of Bernstein that can reduce this a little, but it would still take years for numbers that ECPP or APR-CL can prove in seconds.
Typically you should use "is_provable_prime" and let it decide the method.
say "$n is definitely prime" if is_nminus1_prime($n);
Takes a positive number as input, and returns 1 if the input passes either theorem 5 or theorem 7 of the Brillhart-Lehmer-Selfridge primality test. This is a deterministic unconditional primality test which requires factoring n-1 to a linear factor less than the cube root of the input. For small inputs (under 40 digits) this is typically very easy, and some numbers will naturally lead to this being very fast. As the input grows, this method slows down rapidly.
say "$n is definitely prime" if is_ecpp_prime($n);
Takes a positive number as input, and returns 1 if the input passes the ECPP primality test. This is the Atkin-Morain Elliptic Curve Primality Proving algorithm. It is the fastest primality proving method in Math::Prime::Util.
This implementation uses a "factor all strategy" (FAS) with backtracking. A limited set of about 500 precalculated discriminants are used, which works well for inputs up to 300 digits, and for many inputs up to one thousand digits. Having a larger set will help with large numbers (a set of 2650 is available on github in the xt/ directory). A future implementation may include code to generate class polynomials as needed.
xt/
my $aref1 = primes( 1_000_000 ); my $aref2 = primes( 2 ** 448, 2 ** 448 + 10000 ); say join ",", @{primes( 2**2048, 2**2048 + 10000 )};
Returns all the primes between the lower and upper limits (inclusive), with a lower limit of 2 if none is given.
2
An array reference is returned (with large lists this is much faster and uses less memory than returning an array directly).
The current implementation uses repeated calls to next_prime, which is good for very small ranges, but not good for large ranges. A future release may use a multi-segmented sieve when appropriate.
next_prime
$n = next_prime($n);
Returns the prime following the input number (the smallest prime number that is greater than the input number). The function "is_prob_prime" is used to determine when a prime is found, hence the result is a probable prime (using BPSW).
For large inputs this function is quite a bit faster than GMP's mpz_nextprime or Pari's nextprime.
mpz_nextprime
nextprime
$n = prev_prime($n);
Returns the prime preceding the input number (the largest prime number that is less than the input number). 0 is returned if the input is 2 or lower. The function "is_prob_prime" is used to determine when a prime is found, hence the result is a probable prime (using BPSW).
my($U, $V, $Qk) = lucas_sequence($n, $P, $Q, $k)
Computes U_k, V_k, and Q_k for the Lucas sequence defined by P,Q, modulo n. The modular Lucas sequence is used in a number of primality tests and proofs.
U_k
V_k
Q_k
P
Q
The following conditions must hold: - D = P*P - 4*Q != 0 - P > 0 - P < n - Q < n - k >= 0 - n >= 2
D = P*P - 4*Q != 0
P > 0
P < n
Q < n
k >= 0
n >= 2
$p = primorial($n);
Given an unsigned integer argument, returns the product of the prime numbers which are less than or equal to n. This definition of n# follows OEIS series A034386 and Wikipedia: Primorial definition for natural numbers.
n#
$p = pn_primorial($n)
Given an unsigned integer argument, returns the product of the first n prime numbers. This definition of p_n# follows OEIS series A002110 and Wikipedia: Primorial definition for prime numbers.
p_n#
The two are related with the relationships:
pn_primorial($n) == primorial( nth_prime($n) ) primorial($n) == pn_primorial( prime_count($n) )
Given a list of integers, returns the greatest common divisor. This is often used to test for coprimality.
Given a list of integers, returns the least common multiple.
Returns the Kronecker symbol (a|n) for two integers. The possible return values with their meanings for odd positive n are:
(a|n)
0 a = 0 mod n 1 a is a quadratic residue modulo n (a = x^2 mod n for some x) -1 a is a quadratic non-residue modulo n
The Kronecker symbol is an extension of the Jacobi symbol to all integer values of n from the latter's domain of positive odd values of n. The Jacobi symbol is itself an extension of the Legendre symbol, which is only defined for odd prime values of n. This corresponds to Pari's kronecker(a,n) function and Mathematica's KroneckerSymbol[n,m] function.
kronecker(a,n)
KroneckerSymbol[n,m]
$lcm = consecutive_integer_lcm($n);
Given an unsigned integer argument, returns the least common multiple of all integers from 1 to n. This can be done by manipulation of the primes up to n, resulting in much faster and memory-friendly results than using factorials.
Calculates the partition function p(n) for a non-negative integer input. This is the number of ways of writing the integer n as a sum of positive integers, without restrictions. This corresponds to Pari's numbpart function and Mathematica's PartitionsP function. The values produced in order are OEIS series A000041.
numbpart
PartitionsP
This uses a combinatorial calculation, which means it will not be very fast compared to Pari, Mathematica, or FLINT which use the Rademacher formula using multi-precision floating point. In 10 seconds, the pure Perl version can produce partitions(10_000) while with Math::Prime::Util::GMP it can do partitions(220_000). In contrast, in about 10 seconds Pari can solve numbpart(22_000_000).
partitions(10_000)
partitions(220_000)
numbpart(22_000_000)
If you want the enumerated partitions, see Integer::Partition. It is very fast and uses an extremely memory efficient iterator. It is not, however, practical for producing the partition number for values over 100 or so.
@factors = factor(640552686568398413516426919223357728279912327120302109778516984973296910867431808451611740398561987580967216226094312377767778241368426651540749005659); # Returns an array of 11 factors
Returns a list of prime factors of a positive number, in numerical order. The special cases of n = 0 and n = 1 will return n.
n = 0
n = 1
Like most advanced factoring programs, a mix of methods is used. This includes trial division for small factors, perfect power detection, Pollard's Rho, Pollard's P-1 with various smoothness and stage settings, Hart's OLF (a Fermat variant), ECM (elliptic curve method), and QS (quadratic sieve). Certainly improvements could be designed for this algorithm (suggestions are welcome).
In practice, this factors 26-digit semiprimes in under 100ms, 36-digit semiprimes in under one second. Arbitrary integers are factored faster. It is many orders of magnitude faster than any other factoring module on CPAN circa 2013. It is comparable in speed to Math::Pari's factorint for most inputs.
factorint
If you want better factoring in general, I recommend looking at the standalone programs yafu, msieve, gmp-ecm, and GGNFS.
my @factors = trial_factor($n); my @factors = trial_factor($n, 1000);
Given a positive number input, tries to discover a factor using trial division. The resulting array will contain either two factors (it succeeded) or the original number (no factor was found). In either case, multiplying @factors yields the original input. An optional divisor limit may be given as the second parameter. Factoring will stop when the input is a prime, one factor is found, or the input has been tested for divisibility with all primes less than or equal to the limit. If no limit is given, then 2**31-1 will be used.
2**31-1
This is a good and fast initial test, and will be very fast for small numbers (e.g. under 1 million). For larger numbers, faster methods for complete factoring have been known since the 17th century.
For inputs larger than about 1000 digits, a dynamic product/remainder tree is used, which is faster than GMP's native methods. This helps when pruning composites or looking for very small factors.
my @factors = prho_factor($n); my @factors = prho_factor($n, 100_000_000);
Given a positive number input, tries to discover a factor using Pollard's Rho method. The resulting array will contain either two factors (it succeeded) or the original number (no factor was found). In either case, multiplying @factors yields the original input. An optional number of rounds may be given as the second parameter. Factoring will stop when the input is a prime, one factor has been found, or the number of rounds has been exceeded.
This is the Pollard Rho method with f = x^2 + 3 and default rounds 64M. It is very good at finding small factors. Typically "pbrent_factor" will be preferred as it behaves similarly but runs quite a bit faster. They use different parameters however, so are not completely identical.
f = x^2 + 3
my @factors = pbrent_factor($n); my @factors = pbrent_factor($n, 100_000_000);
Given a positive number input, tries to discover a factor using Pollard's Rho method with Brent's algorithm. The resulting array will contain either two factors (it succeeded) or the original number (no factor was found). In either case, multiplying @factors yields the original input. An optional number of rounds may be given as the second parameter. Factoring will stop when the input is a prime, one factor has been found, or the number of rounds has been exceeded.
This is the Pollard Rho method using Brent's modified cycle detection, delayed gcd computations, and backtracking. It is essentially Algorithm P''2 from Brent (1980). Parameters used are f = x^2 + 3 and default rounds 64M. It is very good at finding small factors.
gcd
my @factors = pminus1_factor($n); # Set B1 smoothness to 10M, second stage automatically set. my @factors = pminus1_factor($n, 10_000_000); # Run p-1 with B1 = 10M, B2 = 100M. my @factors = pminus1_factor($n, 10_000_000, 100_000_000);
Given a positive number input, tries to discover a factor using Pollard's p-1 method. The resulting array will contain either two factors (it succeeded) or the original number (no factor was found). In either case, multiplying @factors yields the original input. An optional first stage smoothness factor (B1) may be given as the second parameter. This will be the smoothness limit B1 for the first stage, and will use 10*B1 for the second stage limit B2. If a third parameter is given, it will be used as the second stage limit B2. Factoring will stop when the input is a prime, one factor has been found, or the algorithm fails to find a factor with the given smoothness.
p-1
10*B1
This is Pollard's p-1 method using a default smoothness of 5M and a second stage of B2 = 10 * B1. It can quickly find a factor p of the input n if the number p-1 factors into small primes. For example n = 22095311209999409685885162322219 has the factor p = 3916587618943361, where p-1 = 2^7 * 5 * 47 * 59 * 3137 * 703499, so this method will find a factor in the first stage if B1 >= 703499 or in the second stage if B1 >= 3137 and B2 >= 703499.
B2 = 10 * B1
p
n = 22095311209999409685885162322219
p = 3916587618943361
p-1 = 2^7 * 5 * 47 * 59 * 3137 * 703499
B1 >= 703499
B1 >= 3137
B2 >= 703499
The implementation is written from scratch using the basic algorithm including a second stage as described in Montgomery 1987. It is faster than most simple implementations I have seen (many of which are written assuming native precision inputs), but slower than Ben Buhrow's code used in earlier versions of yafu, and nowhere close to the speed of the version included with modern GMP-ECM with large B values (it is actually quite a bit faster than GMP-ECM with small smoothness values).
my @factors = pplus1_factor($n);
Given a positive number input, tries to discover a factor using Williams' p+1 method. The resulting array will contain either two factors (it succeeded) or the original number (no factor was found). In either case, multiplying @factors yields the original input. An optional first stage smoothness factor (B1) may be given as the second parameter. This will be the smoothness limit B1 for the first stage. Factoring will stop when the input is a prime, one factor has been found, or the algorithm fails to find a factor with the given smoothness.
p+1
my @factors = holf_factor($n); my @factors = holf_factor($n, 100_000_000);
Given a positive number input, tries to discover a factor using Hart's OLF method. The resulting array will contain either two factors (it succeeded) or the original number (no factor was found). In either case, multiplying @factors yields the original input. An optional number of rounds may be given as the second parameter. Factoring will stop when the input is a prime, one factor has been found, or the number of rounds has been exceeded.
This is Hart's One Line Factorization method, which is a variant of Fermat's algorithm. A premultiplier of 480 is used. It is very good at factoring numbers that are close to perfect squares, or small numbers. Very naive methods of picking RSA parameters sometimes yield numbers in this form, so it can be useful to run this a few rounds to check. For example, the number:
18548676741817250104151622545580576823736636896432849057 \ 10984160646722888555430591384041316374473729421512365598 \ 29709849969346650897776687202384767704706338162219624578 \ 777915220190863619885201763980069247978050169295918863
was proposed by someone as an RSA key. It is indeed composed of two distinct prime numbers of similar bit length. Most factoring methods will take a very long time to break this. However one factor is almost exactly 5x larger than the other, allowing HOLF to factor this 222-digit semiprime in only a few milliseconds.
my @factors = squfof_factor($n); my @factors = squfof_factor($n, 100_000_000);
Given a positive number input, tries to discover a factor using Shanks' square forms factorization method (usually known as SQUFOF). The resulting array will contain either two factors (it succeeded) or the original number (no factor was found). In either case, multiplying @factors yields the original input. An optional number of rounds may be given as the second parameter. Factoring will stop when the input is a prime, one factor has been found, or the number of rounds has been exceeded.
This is Daniel Shanks' SQUFOF (square forms factorization) algorithm. The particular implementation is a non-racing multiple-multiplier version, based on code ideas of Ben Buhrow and Jason Papadopoulos as well as many others. SQUFOF is often the preferred method for small numbers, and Math::Prime::Util as well as many other packages use it was the default method for native size (e.g. 32-bit or 64-bit) numbers after trial division. The GMP version used in this module will work for larger values, but my testing indicates it is generally slower than the prho and pbrent implementations.
prho
pbrent
my @factors = ecm_factor($n); my @factors = ecm_factor($n, 12500); # B1 = 12500 my @factors = ecm_factor($n, 12500, 10); # B1 = 12500, curves = 10
Given a positive number input, tries to discover a factor using ECM. The resulting array will contain either two factors (it succeeded) or the original number (no factor was found). In either case, multiplying @factors yields the original input. An optional maximum smoothness may be given as the second parameter, which relates to the size of factor to search for. An optional third parameter indicates the number of random curves to use at each smoothness value being searched.
This is an implementation of Hendrik Lenstra's elliptic curve factoring method, usually referred to as ECM. The implementation is reasonable, using projective coordinates, Montgomery's PRAC heuristic for EC multiplication, and two stages. It is much slower than the latest GMP-ECM, but still quite useful for factoring reasonably sized inputs.
my @factors = qs_factor($n);
Given a positive number input, tries to discover factors using QS (the quadratic sieve). The resulting array will contain one or more numbers such that multiplying @factors yields the original input. Typically multiple factors will be produced, unlike the other ..._factor routines.
..._factor
The current implementation is a modified version of SIMPQS, a predecessor to the QS in FLINT, and was written by William Hart in 2006. It will not operate on input less than 30 digits. The memory use for large inputs is more than desired, so other methods such as "pbrent_factor", "pminus1_factor", and "ecm_factor" are recommended to begin with to filter out small factors. However, it is substantially faster than the other methods on large inputs having large factors, and is the method of choice for 35+ digit semiprimes.
Dana Jacobsen <dana@acm.org>
William Hart wrote the SIMPQS code which is the basis for the QS code.
Obviously none of this would be possible without the mathematicians who created and published their work. Eratosthenes, Gauss, Euler, Riemann, Fermat, Lucas, Baillie, Pollard, Brent, Montgomery, Shanks, Hart, Wagstaff, Dixon, Pomerance, A.K. Lenstra, H. W. Lenstra Jr., Atkin, Knuth, etc.
The GNU GMP team, whose product allows me to concentrate on coding high-level algorithms and not worry about any of the details of how modular exponentiation and the like happen, and still get decent performance for my purposes.
Ben Buhrow and Jason Papadopoulos deserve special mention for their open source factoring tools, which are both readable and fast. In particular I am leveraging their SQUFOF work in the current implementation. They are a huge resource to the community.
Jonathan Leto and Bob Kuo, who wrote and distributed the Math::Primality module on CPAN. Their implementation of BPSW provided the motivation I needed to do it in this module and Math::Prime::Util. I also used their module quite a bit for testing against.
Paul Zimmermann's papers and GMP-ECM code were of great value for my projective ECM implementation, as well as the papers by Brent and Montgomery.
Copyright 2011-2014 by Dana Jacobsen <dana@acm.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SIMPQS Copyright 2006, William Hart. SIMPQS is distributed under GPL v2+.
To install Math::Prime::Util::GMP, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Math::Prime::Util::GMP
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Math::Prime::Util::GMP
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.