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Despite the fact primality test is a mathematical issue, it plays a part on the security of many cryptosystems such as RSA. I was trying to understand how it works until I came to the following congruency:

〖(X+a)〗^p≡X^p+a (mod X^r-1,p)

The above reduces evaluating the initial congruency 〖(X+a)〗^p≡X^p+a (mod p) to have less coefficient. How do we evaluate the above one?

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This is never "evaluated" as such. The above equation must hold for the number to be prime for certain $a$, or else it's composite.

See the algorithm on Wikipedia to exactly see for which $a$ the equation is tested.

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