Information Theory and Applications: Third Canadian Workshop, Rockland, Ontario, Canada, May 30-June 2, 1993 
Subtitle: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780387579368
First sentence: The subject of primitive polynomials over finite fields has been of interest over the past few decades, primarily due to their use in the generation of linear feedback shift register sequences which find application in communication systems, cryptographic systems and random number generation for Monte Carlo simulation.