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Re: Primality Algorithm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue May 20 09:18:51 2003

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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 10:20:11 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: tom st denis <tomstdenis@yahoo.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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tom st denis wrote:
> In all honestly unless you are doing this for research purposes you
> might as well just use say 8 rounds of Miller-Rabin.  For all practical
> purposes that is just as good [chances of failure < 2^-80].

I presume you meant 80 rounds.

Cheers,

Ben.

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