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Publications and source records attributed to Adama Diene.
In this paper we show that a recently published finite automaton stream cipher can be considered as a quasigroup based stream cipher. Some additional properties of the discussed cipher are also given.
Let $F_q$ be a field with $q$ elements, where $q$ is a power of a prime number $p\geq 5$. For any integer $m\geq 2$ and $a\in F_q^*$ such that the polynomial $x^m-a$ is irreducible in $F_q[x]$, we combine two different methods to construct explicitly elements of high order in the field $F_q[x]/\langle x^m-a\rangle $. Namely, we find elements with multiplicative order of at least $5^{\sqrt[3]{m/2}}$, which is better than previously obtained bound for such family of extension fields.
We prove the analogue of an identity of Huard, Ou, Spearman and Williams and apply it to evaluate a variety of sums involving divisor functions in two variables. It turns out that these sums count representations of positive integers involving radicals.