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Michael Sierchio wrote:
| Goetz Babin-Ebell wrote:
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|> RSA has some weaknesses against chosen plain text attacks.
|
| Anyway, why would someone use RSA for encryption? ;-)

... because they don't know what they are doing ? ;-)

(that's what my mail was about:
~ You _can_ use RSA for encryption, but you really have
~ to know what you are doing.
~ And if you have to ask why RSA only supports encryption
~ to a given length, you don't.)

Goetz

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