Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2012/003

On the distinctness of binary sequences derived from primitive sequences modulo square-free odd integers

Qun-Xiong Zheng, Wen-Feng Qi and Tian Tian

Abstract: Let M be a square-free odd integer and Z/(M) the integer residue ring modulo M. This paper studies the distinctness of primitive sequences over Z/(M) modulo 2. Recently, for the case of M = pq, a product of two distinct prime numbers p and q, the problem has been almost completely solved. As for the case that M is a product of more prime numbers, the problem has been quite resistant to proof. In this paper, a partial proof is given by showing that a class of primitive sequences of order 2k+1 over Z/(M) is distinct modulo 2. Besides as an independent interest, the paper also involves two distribution properties of primitive sequences over Z/(M), which related closely to our main results.

Category / Keywords: foundations / integer residue rings, linear recurring sequences, primitive polynomials, primitive sequences, modular reduction

Date: received 3 Jan 2012

Contact author: qunxiong_zheng at 163 com

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Note: The manuscript was summitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in Aug. 2011.

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Short URL: ia.cr/2012/003

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