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Does Primecoin cryptography depend on the difficulty of finding prime numbers and then try to find them?
by swixmix 13y ago
Does Primecoin cryptography depend on the difficulty of finding prime numbers and then try to find them?
- david4096 13y agoPrimeCoin searches for prime chains. For example 6 is at the center of a bitwin prime chain of length 2. 6 - 1 = 5, prime 6 + 1 = 7, prime 6 * 2 - 1 = 11, prime 6 * 2 + 1 = 13, prime The design paper is a light and interesting read: http://ppcoin.org/static/primecoin-paper.pdf http://ppcoin.org/static/primecoin-paper.pdf Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_chain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_chain
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