Re: FW: Fermat's primality test vs. Miller-Rabin

2005-11-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Charlie Kaufman: > The probability of a single run of Miller-Rabin or Fermat not > detecting that a randomly chosen number is composite is almost > vanishingly small. How do you chose a random integer, that this, based on which probability distribution? 8-) Anyway, one can show that for some f

FW: Fermat's primality test vs. Miller-Rabin

2005-11-10 Thread Charlie Kaufman
(resending after bounce) -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaufman Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:11 PM To: 'Travis H.'; 'cryptography@metzdowd.com' Subject: RE: Fermat's primality test vs. Miller-Rabin >Is that the distinction that makes >Miller-Rabin a stronger primality test? Yes.