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Paper 1, Section II, 12G12 G12G

Coding and Cryptography | Part II, 2011

Describe the Rabin-Williams coding scheme. Show that any method for breaking it will enable us to factorise the product of two primes.

Explain how the Rabin-Williams scheme can be used for bit sharing (that is to say 'tossing coins by phone').

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