safe prime

English

Etymology

These primes are called safe because they are safe to use in cyptography due to the fact that one less than the prime has the largest possible prime factor.

Noun

safe prime (plural safe primes)

  1. Any prime number of the form 2p + 1, where p is also a prime.
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