Given Primes p,q, Find Pseudoprime pqr
Suppose we're looking for a general way with arbitrary primes p,q
to find a prime r such that pqr is a pseudoprime to one of a small
set of bases. In principle this is just a finite search. Taking the
base 2 as an example, we know 2^r = 2 (mod r) for every prime r, so
the condition that 2^(pqr) = 2 (mod pqr) implies that 2^(pq) = 2
(mod r). Therefore, r must be a divisor of 2^(pq-1) - 1.
For example, with p=3 and q=5 we need r to be a divisor of
2^14 - 1 = (3)(43)(127). Therefore, the only possible values of
r that could make pqr a base-2 pseudoprime are 3, 43, and 127.
It turns out that both 43 and 127 give base-2 pseudoprimes
(645 and 1905).
For another example, take p=3 and q=11. In this case r must be
a divisor of 2^32 - 1 = (3)(5)(17)(257)(65537). It turns out that
r=257 gives the base-2 pseudoprime 8481.
Of course, we can't really make use of this to test for the primality
of n=pq by finding r, because finding the factors of 2^(n-1) - 1 is
more or less the same as knowing the factorization of n-1, and if we
know that, we can already test for the primality of n using standard
methods.
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