[Cryptography] Need a list of Solinas/pseudo Mersene Primes.

Viktor Dukhovni cryptography at dukhovni.org
Fri Aug 31 10:44:38 EDT 2018



> On Aug 30, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com> wrote:
> 
>  need a value greater than 2^256, sorry. 2^257-n
> 
> So what is the lowest value of n that is prime? Did not see that in safe primes :(

According to https://www.alpertron.com.ar/ECM.HTM

  (1 SHL 257) - B(1 SHL 257) = 93

So you can take n = 93.

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	Viktor.



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