Re: Security of RSA and factoring

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1987 03:42

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In article <163@iris.randvax.UUCP> jim@iris.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) writes:
>I'd expect any scheme to offer an easy way to select your secret primes,
>and breaking that is not necessarily equivalent to factoring the public key.

Quite so.  And this is but one example of how practical cryptanalysis
may differ from the academic subject found in recent textbooks.

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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: Security of RSA and factoring
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Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 22:42:52 EST
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