Period of the power generator and small values of Carmichael's function

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 70, Issue 236, 2001, Pages 1591-1605

  Friedlander, John B ^a   Pomerance, Carl ^b   Shparlinski, Igor E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blum Blum Shub generator; Carmichael's function; RSA generator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035647482     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-00-01282-5     Document Type: Article

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