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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!afterlife!rlward1
- From: rlward1@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Robert Ward)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Primitive Polynomials (Mod 2)
- Keywords: Primitive Polynomials (Mod 2)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.183829.16884@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 18:38:29 GMT
- References: <C0Jtyt.3HH@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Sender: rlward1@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Robert L. Ward)
- Followup-To: sci.crypt
- Organization: National Computer Security Center
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- 1) Brillhart and Zierler are merely informing you that they had not, at the
- time of publication of their article, tested those T_n,k(x) for primitivity,
- only for irreducibility.
-
- 2) The correct statement is that if f(x) is a primitive irreducible polynomial
- over of degree n, then so is x^n*f(1/x) [after multiplying through to clear
- fractions]. This implies your first statement (for trinomials). Tetranomials
- can never be irreducible, much less primitive: they are divisible by x + 1.
- This also implies that x^p + x^q + x^r + x^s + 1 primitive iff
- x^p + x^(p-s) + x^(p-r) + x^(p-q) + 1 primitive.
-
- Robert L. Ward
-