Re: A New Encryption Algorithm
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Re: A New Encryption Algorithm

From: John Savard <jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid>
Date: Wed Jan 18 2006 - 04:24:01 CET

On 16 Jan 2006 05:19:05 GMT, Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote, in
part:

>Choose ANY a and b such that a=b=5 mod 12

That's clearly wrong. Since n is "b mod a", and n is supposed to be a
number such that c = x^3 mod n is hard to crack, clearly n must not be
prime. And a and b must both be prime.

Thus, a must be big - and b must be much bigger.

John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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Received on Thu Jan 19 03:44:39 2006