[Foxtrot] Square Roots modulo p^2

Alan Lawrence acl33@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:10:29 +0000 (GMT)


let x = sqrt(a) mod p

then

y = (x + a/x)/2

(doing all divisions modulo p^2)

is the square root of a modulo p^2.

--Alan