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Method, system and apparatus for generating self-validating prime numbers

  • US 6,307,938 B1
  • Filed: 07/10/1998
  • Issued: 10/23/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer system for creating a user-generated prime number with encoded seed value information, said system comprising:

  • a generation algorithm having inputs, said inputs consisting of one or more secret seed numbers and one or more additional numbers;

    a forward computational step for generating a prime number from said one or more secret seed numbers and said one or more additional numbers; and

    , a backward computational step for deriving said one or more secret seed numbers from said prime number and said one or more additional numbers such that said one or more secret seed numbers cannot be computed directly from said prime number.

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