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The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.??

To: cypherpunks <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.??
From: Luis Saiz <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:13:30 +0200
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
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OS/390 Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility Application
Programmer's Guide Version 2 Release 5 Publication No. SC23-3976-02 :
 http://ppdbooks.pok.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/DOCNUM/SC23-3976/CCONTENTS



In several parts of the document it's specified that, as a restriction:


> The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.
>
It's there any (unknown to me) security reason to be this way, or it�s
an implementation/standard option??

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