[Cryptography] 1023 nails in the coffin of 1024 RSA...
Viktor Dukhovni
cryptography at dukhovni.org
Sat Oct 4 16:39:01 EDT 2014
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 09:50:51PM +0200, Hanno B?ck wrote:
> However it certainly doesn't hurt if a few people look at the supposed
> source code and see if there's anything suspicious.
For a modulus with 2k bits, p and q will both have k bits. For a
module with 2k+1 bits, p will have k+1 bits and q will have k bits.
The bit counts in question are completely unremarkable. If there
are bugs, they are somewhere else (random number generation, prime
sieving, ...).
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Viktor.
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