Raw RSA binary string and public key 'detection'

Dirk-Willem van Gulik dirkx at webweaving.org
Thu Nov 20 04:14:47 EST 2008


Been looking at the Telnic (dev.telnic.org) effort.

In essence; NAPTR dns records which contain private details such as a  
phone number. These are encrypted against the public keys of your  
friends (so if you have 20 friends and 3 phone numbers visible to all  
friends - you need 20 subdomains x 3 NAPTR entries under your 'master').

Aside from the practicality of this - given a raw RSA encrypted block  
and a list of public keys - is there any risk that someone could  
establish which of those public keys may have been used to create that  
block ? I.e. something which would be done in bulk for large  
populations; so the use of large tables and what not is quite warranted.

Thanks,

Dw

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