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Paper 2003/186
Safe Prime Generation with a Combined Sieve
Michael J. Wiener
Abstract
A number $p$ is a safe prime if both $p$ and $(p-1)/2$ are prime. This note describes a method of generating safe primes that is considerably faster than repeatedly generating random primes $q$ until $p=2q+1$ is also prime.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
- PDF PS
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Not published
- Keywords
- Safe primesPrime generation
- Contact author(s)
- michael wiener @ sympatico ca
- History
- 2003-09-10: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2003/186
- License
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CC BY