X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/catacomb/blobdiff_plain/ad74e5b4b2bf64ff2c02f2a8ce90a9d72bdb5bc2..4d47e1571e6a3fd88ebd956a18a4b362d2f98755:/gfshare.h

diff --git a/gfshare.h b/gfshare.h
index 29ecd14..4141156 100644
--- a/gfshare.h
+++ b/gfshare.h
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 /* -*-c-*-
  *
- * $Id: gfshare.h,v 1.2 2000/06/17 11:05:27 mdw Exp $
+ * $Id: gfshare.h,v 1.3 2000/06/18 23:12:15 mdw Exp $
  *
- * Secret sharing over %$\gf(2^8)$%
+ * Secret sharing over %$\gf{2^8}$%
  *
  * (c) 2000 Straylight/Edgeware
  */
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
 /*----- Revision history --------------------------------------------------* 
  *
  * $Log: gfshare.h,v $
+ * Revision 1.3  2000/06/18 23:12:15  mdw
+ * Change typesetting of Galois Field names.
+ *
  * Revision 1.2  2000/06/17 11:05:27  mdw
  * Add a commentary on the system.
  *
@@ -42,9 +45,9 @@
  *
  * This uses a variant of Shamir's secret sharing system.  Shamir's original
  * system used polynomials modulo a large prime.  This implementation instead
- * uses the field %$\gf(2^8)$%, represented by
+ * uses the field %$\gf{2^8}$%, represented by
  *
- *   %$\gf(2)[x]/(x^8 + x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + 1)$%
+ *   %$\gf{2}[x]/(x^8 + x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + 1)$%
  *
  * and shares each byte of the secret independently.  It is therefore limited
  * to 255 players, although this probably isn't a serious limitation in