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SubjectRe: random.c: LFSR polynomials are not irreducible/primitive
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Am Dienstag, 15. August 2017, 17:12:24 CEST schrieb Theodore Ts'o:

Hi Theodore,

>
> Stephan, if you have any comments on the proposal made by David
> Fontaine and Olivier Vivolo, I'd appreciate hearing them!

I think I have some news: The magma code I used for GF(2^32) testing was not
correct.

The corrected magma code is attached (thanks to Dr. Peter Birkner, BSI, who
helped me here).

That magma code shows:

- the current polynomials for Q(X) = α**3 (P(X) − 1) + 1 are irreducible but
not primitive over GF(2^32)

- the polynomials suggested in https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/726.pdf Q(X) =
α**4 (P(X) − 1) + 1 are both, irreducible and primitive over GF(2^32)

The use of GF(2^32) is important, because we apply the LFSR to a 32 bit word.
Hence, we have 2^32 permutations the LFSR should evenly cover.


Bottom line, I would recommend that random.c is patched to take the
polynomials suggested in https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/726.pdf.


If it is of any help, the attached magma code could be preserved somewhere
useful (in random.c?)

Ciao
Stephan[unhandled content-type:application/x-wine-extension-mag]
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