[Bug 2047] New: Definition of Sophie Germain primes is wrong in manual moduli.5

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2047

          Priority: P5
            Bug ID: 2047
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
           Summary: Definition of Sophie Germain primes is wrong in manual
                    moduli.5
          Severity: normal
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: plautrba at redhat.com
          Hardware: Other
            Status: NEW
           Version: 6.1p1
         Component: Documentation
           Product: Portable OpenSSH

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841065 +++

Description of problem:
man moduli says:
 4     Sophie Germain; (p+1)*2 is also prime.
but, (p+1)*2 is obviously NOT a prime.
It should be p*2+1.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SophieGermainPrime.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openssh-server-5.8p2-25.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man moduli
2. search for "Sophie"

Actual results:
 4     Sophie Germain; (p+1)*2 is also prime.

Expected results:
 4     Sophie Germain; p*2+1 is also prime.

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