Pete Chown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggested a PKC formulation:
>>>Whereas in RSA you form a modulus n as the product of two primes p and
>>>q, in my scheme you set n = pqr, where all three are prime. The order
>>>of the multiplicative group modulo n is now (p - 1)(q - 1)(r - 1).
>>>You choose e and find d such that de is congruent to 1 modulo
>>>(p - 1)(q - 1)(r - 1).
Vin McLellan <me> noted that this was not a new idea, and added that
in addition to relevant research at RSA Labs over the years...
>> A Compaq crypto team has also done research in this area, using
>>different numbers of primes with RSA.
Andrew Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked for a URL that might
describe the Compaq research:
/> anything published and available on line?
Not that I know of. The Compaq work was just something I heard
about sometime last year. Maybe someone from Compaq (or elsewhere) can
offer more details.
Suerte,
_Vin