Big Integers and Testing For Primes

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Your online security is fundamentally dependent on a special type of number: a prime number. Every time you connect to the Internet, there is a computation that is normally done that allows a symmetric key to be created between you and a Web site and which involves:

V = calc (mod p)

and where p is a prime number. Along with this, we must verify a remote Web site with its…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.