Re: Fortuna

David Wagner
2005-04-17T00:40:00Z

Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
>The part which suggests choosing an irreducible poly and a value "a" in the
>preprocessing stage ... last I checked the value for a and the poly need to
>be secret. How do you generate poly and a, Catch-22? Perhaps I'm missing
>something and someone can point it out.

I don't think you're missing anything. What you say matches my
understanding as well.