We consider only primitive binary cyclic codes of length n = 2 m ? 1. A BCH-code with designed distance is denoted B(n;). A BCH-code is always a narrow-sense BCH-code. A codeword is identiied with its locator polynomial, whose coeecients are the symmetric functions of the locators. The deenition of the code by its zeros-set involves some properties for the power sums of the locators. Moreover t...