Re: [OT] Rabin-Miller test for primes

2001-08-28 Thread Sisyphus
> You have read up to step 5? :-) > > HTH, > Thomas > Thanks, Thomas - the penny has finally dropped. I just have to loop through steps 4 and 5, incrementing j for as long as jhttp://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager

RE: [OT] Rabin-Miller test for primes

2001-08-28 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Hi, > Sisyphus [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] asked: > I have 2 almost identical accounts of the Rabin-Miller test. One is in > Schneier's 'Applied Cryptography' and the other is at > http://mason.gmu.edu/~kgaj/ECE590/spec/dong.html ( from a Google search). > > I can follow the procedure quite well, e

[OT] Rabin-Miller test for primes

2001-08-28 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, I have 2 almost identical accounts of the Rabin-Miller test. One is in Schneier's 'Applied Cryptography' and the other is at http://mason.gmu.edu/~kgaj/ECE590/spec/dong.html ( from a Google search). I can follow the procedure quite well, except for the role of the variable 'j', which has no b