Does anyone recollect the history behind and the implications of the
(open) SSH choice of 35 as a hard-wired public exponent?

key.c:  private = RSA_generate_key(bits, 35, NULL, NULL);

i.e.  100011 binary compared to the more typical F4 10000000000000001 binary

Thanks,
Tim.



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