There's news on the web: a new Mersenne prime is discovered, the biggest so far:
New prime. It's all cool and dandy: the winning team gets 100k from Electronic Frontier foundation, and everyone's happy.
However, as hard as I tried, I could not find a page with reference on the practical use of the perfect prime. Regular primes are used in open-key cryptography, we know that. But what's the fuss about perfect prime?
New prime. It's all cool and dandy: the winning team gets 100k from Electronic Frontier foundation, and everyone's happy.
However, as hard as I tried, I could not find a page with reference on the practical use of the perfect prime. Regular primes are used in open-key cryptography, we know that. But what's the fuss about perfect prime?