On 03/22/2012 11:29 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Is there any benefit to using an exponent that factors? I always > thought low hamming weights and primality were the desired attributes > for public exponents. And I'm not sure about primality.
Not that I know of. At least Textbook RSA doesn't require primality, just coprimality to (p-1)(q-1). _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
