functions for Galois Fields



On 2012-08-01, Volker van Nek <volkervannek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just in time before the next release I finished my revision of the first
> part of the Galois Fields package. Today I uploaded functions and tests.
> I plan to revise the documentation in autumn this year.
>
> For the interested who wants to see the new functions in action I attached
> a working example on AES en/decryption.

Terrific, Volker, thanks for this contribution, and keep up the good
work. It appears that aes.mac is not yet in Maxima -- since it is a
nontrivial illustration of the GF function, I encourage you to put it
somewhere in maxima/share -- let's say maxima/share/contrib.

best

Robert Dodier