Cryptographic primitives are fundamental for information security: they are
used as basic components for cryptographic protocols or public-key
cryptosystems. In many cases, their security proofs consist in showing that
they are reducible to computationally hard problems. Those reductions can be
subtle and tedious, and thus not easily checkable. On top of the proof
assistant Coq, we had implemented in previous work a toolbox for writing and
checking game-based security proofs of cryptographic primitives. In this paper
we describe its extension with number-theoretic capabilities so that it is now
possible to write and check arithmetic-based cryptographic primitives in our
toolbox. We illustrate our work by machine checking the game-based proofs of
unpredictability of the pseudo-random bit generator of Blum, Blum and Shub, and
semantic security of the public-key cryptographic scheme of Goldwasser and
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