IACR News item: 19 January 2023
Theophilus Agama
ePrint Report
Applying the pothole method on the factors of numbers of the form $2^n-1$, we prove the inequality $$\iota(2^n-1)\leq n-1+\iota(n)$$ where $\iota(n)$ denotes the length of the shortest addition chain producing $n$.
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