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Re: gnupg rsa question // why use e of 41 ?
From: <tomstdenis@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 19:27:25 CEST
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 19:27:25 CEST
Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:
> > Have you seen any implementation mistakes in the wild that render the
> > library insecure with e=3 but secure with e=65537?
>
> As you already said: improper padding.
But without proper use of RSA any value of e is insecure.
Tom
Received on Mon May 1 02:06:28 2006