On Lucas Sequences Computation

Aleksey Koval
DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2010.312128                

Abstract

This paper introduces an improvement to a currently published algorithm to compute both Lucas "sister" sequences V_k and U_k. The proposed algorithm uses Lucas sequence properties to improve the running time by about 20% over the algorithm published in [1].

Keywords

Lucas Sequences, Cryptography

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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