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Re: basic RSA info
Jeremy Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now that I think about it. I am sure to have messed something up.
> Please send a flame back attacking what I foobared. Thank you.
okay... overall pretty good tho.
> When you make an RSA key, you generate three numbers.
> Two of them are prime and one is just odd.
The encryption exponent must not contain any common factors with
(p-1)(q-1). This means that it is always odd, but that's not
necessarily the only factor that you need to check.
> P^s
> E = ------
> l
The remainder, not the quotient. Usually written as E = P^s mod l