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Article #2869Is N a prime power?
From: Jonathan Edwards
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:04
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:04
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I am reading an old paper by Tompa that describes Blum's protocol for flipping coins by telephone. The first thing the verifier must do is verify that a very large (hundreds of digits) number has at least two distinct prime factors (i.e., that the number is not a prime power). Tompa gives no hint how to do this and I haven't been able to find anyone else who knows. I'd very much appreciate it if someone could explain how it's done or point me to a paper somewhere...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!hri.com!ukma!jedwards From: jedwards@ms.uky.edu (Jonathan Edwards) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Is N a prime power? Message-ID: <C1Exs1.8uz@ms.uky.edu> Date: 25 Jan 93 14:04:48 GMT Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 7