From: cman@IO.COM (Douglas Barnes)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 20:45:50 PDT
To: mgream@acacia.itd.uts.edu.au (Matthew Gream)
Subject: Re: Diffie-Helman example in g++
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> The only restriction placed on /a/ is that it be a primitive root of
> /p/. To do this, you choose /a/ at random until you find the condition
> (/a/, /p/-1) == 1 is satisfied. Since there are lots of primitive roots,
> this shouldn't take long. I wonder though, are there any strengths in
> choosing higher values of /a/?
> 
> Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, my engineering background means
> my number theory isn't as strong as it could be (but I'm working on it
> :-).
> 

a is a constant, known to all (especially to both A and B).

Doug

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