Re: Primitive polynomials in extended Galois fields



"Anup" <anupkc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I understand that the number of checks should be the number of factors
of 4^degree-1 and not 4^degree-1 as I mentioned in the first post. Is
that what you meant Phil ?

Yes. To check the order of an element you never have to perform more
tests than there are factors of the order of the multiplicative group.

Factors of 4^n-1 are well known from the Cunningham project, so you
don't even need to do the factorisation yourself.

Phil
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