<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: shrims . .... .. <<a href="mailto:shrims4u@gmail.com">shrims4u@gmail.com</a>> Date: Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM Subject: Re: segmentation error while using mpz_powm in a loop To: Paul Zimmermann <<a href="mailto:Paul.Zimmermann@loria.fr">Paul.Zimmermann@loria.fr</a>> okay..... Actually i am writing a milter which decrypts the email message. For decryption i am using GMP library... The code which gives the error is as follows:<div class="im"> mpz_t bigbody,encbody,decbody,n,d,e; </div> mpz_init_set_str (e, "5", 10); mpz_init_set_str (n, "81072118814004638617775947138239917744589505176471539666269773100315781097546894455560658571445286325125766632676152452856383447352821337178984474781813475276075048299705214136395672502245955793627681061360075723595075874516950614187016991430293887968216015097675955399134514678660046996064181098182893072761", 10); mpz_init_set_str (d, "32428847525601855447110378855295967097835802070588615866507909240126312439018757782224263428578114530050306653070460981142553378941128534871593789912725382636961637010791821646038659077539848411532121133465246631106852802485583932352673149866783600963924490576147444236696494852521901563664557493382382127469", 10); char *STR; STR=(char*)malloc(1000);<div class="im"> mpz_t array[10]; //mpz_array_init (array, 10, 308); mpz_t array1[10]; </div>//mpz_array_init (array1, 10, 100000); char substring[400]; int i=0,lower=0,upper=308;<div class="im"> while(i<noOfBlocks) { strncpy(substring, data_buffer + lower, upper); </div> *(substring+308)='\0'; syslog( LOG_INFO, "conn# %d - substring = %s", cd->connection_num, substring );<div class="im"> lower=upper; upper=upper+308; mpz_init_set_str(array[i],substring,10); mpz_get_str (STR, 10, array[i]); strcat(STR,"\0"); syslog( LOG_INFO, "conn# %d - Encrypted-Biginteger = %s", cd->connection_num, STR ); mpz_init(array1[i]); mpz_powm (array1[i], array[i], d, n); </div> mpz_get_str (STR, 10, array1[i]); syslog( LOG_INFO, "conn# %d - Decrypted-Biginteger = %s", cd->connection_num, STR ); size_t length; void *ret; char *decrypted; decrypted=(char*)malloc(1000); ret=mpz_export (decrypted, &length, 1,sizeof(data_buffer[0]), 0, 0, array1[i]); //ret=mpz_export (decrypted, &length, 1,sizeof(data_buffer[0]), 0, 0, array1[i]); strncpy(decrypted,ret,length); *(decrypted+length)='\0'; syslog( LOG_INFO, "conn# %d - size decrypted = %d Decrypted = %s", cd->connection_num,length, (char *)ret ); fflush(stdout); free(decrypted); fflush(stdin); mpz_clear(array[i]); mpz_clear(array1[i]); i++; } This code executes for 2 iterations and then give segmentation fault at mpz_powm( )<div> <div></div><div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Paul Zimmermann <<a href="mailto:Paul.Zimmermann@loria.fr" target="_blank">Paul.Zimmermann@loria.fr</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>> I am getting segmentation fault in the program below. > I have initialised all the GMP variables properly... > But still i am getting segmentation fault at *mpz_powm( ); > *The loop runs only once and second time it gives segmentation fault at > mpz_powm... > * </div>> The code is as follows: [...] without a complete code we cannot reproduce your problem. I suggest you try to print the values of your variables before the mpz_powm call, with say gmp_printf. If you still get a segmentation fault *inside* the mpz_powm call, please send your complete program to the list. Paul Zimmermann </blockquote></div> </div></div></div>