Special Primes: Properties and Applications

R. Durán Díaz and L. Hernández Encinas
Chapter of the book: Geometry, Algebra and Applications: From Mechanics to Cryptography, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016, 79-90, ISBN: 978-3-319-32084-7

This note presents a short survey on current results about the density and methods to obtain several kinds of special primes, together with primality algorithms.

Acknowledgments

This work has been partially funded by both Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain under grant number TIN2014-55325-C2-1-R (ProCriCiS), and Comunidad de Madrid, Spain, under grant number S2013/ICE-3095-CM (CIBERDINE).