gf2x: Fast arithmetic in GF(2)[x] and searching for irreducible/primitive trinomials#

Description#

gf2x is a C/C++ software package containing routines for fast arithmetic in GF(2)[x] (multiplication, squaring, GCD) and searching for irreducible/primitive trinomials.

Website: https://gitlab.inria.fr/gf2x/gf2x

License#

GNU GPLv2+.

Upstream Contact#

Richard Brent
Pierrick Gaudry
Emmanuel Thomé
Paul Zimmermann

Type#

standard

Dependencies#

Version Information#

package-version.txt:

1.3.0

Equivalent System Packages#

Alpine

$ apk add gf2x-dev

Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -S gf2x

conda-forge

$ conda install gf2x

Debian/Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install libgf2x-dev

Fedora/Redhat/CentOS

$ sudo yum install gf2x gf2x-devel

FreeBSD

$ sudo pkg install math/gf2x

openSUSE

$ sudo zypper install pkgconfig\(gf2x\)

Void Linux

$ sudo xbps-install gf2x-devel

See https://repology.org/project/gf2x/versions

If the system package is installed, ./configure will check if it can be used.