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Re: Proven Primes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Fri Mar 7 13:25:41 2003
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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:43:41 -0800
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
At 2:04 AM -0800 3/7/03, Ben Laurie wrote:
>BTW, a terminology nit - a Sophie Germain prime is one such that p and
>2p+1 are prime - I'll be that what you've given me is one such that p
>and (p-1)/2 are prime, right?
Yes. And I do know that the Sophie Germain prime is the smaller of the two
related primes.
Cheers - Bill
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