References 4.8 References and Suggested Readings
[1]
Koblitz,
N. A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography. 2nd
ed. Springer, New York, 1994.
[2]
Pomerance,
C. “Cryptology and Computational Number Theory—An Introduction,”
in Cryptology and Computational Number Theory, Pomerance,
C., ed. Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, vol. 42,
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1990. Thisbook
gives an excellent account of how the method of repeated squares
is used in cryptography.