How can i check the authenticity of a private key

2002-05-31 Thread surinder pal singh makkar
Hi List, I am a newbie in cryptography. What I have learnt till now is that in assymeric cryptography scenario we have a private key and we generate the public key corresponding to it and then we send it to the central agency. Suppose after sometime I have a private key and the public key. Is

Re: How can i check the authenticity of a private key

2002-05-31 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 31 May 2002, surinder pal singh makkar wrote: I am a newbie in cryptography. What I have learnt till now is that in assymeric cryptography scenario we have a private key and we generate the public key corresponding to it and then we send it to the central agency. You don't have to

Re: How can i check the authenticity of a private key

2002-05-31 Thread gfgs pedo
hi, I was helping a friend if mine with rsa key generation.if it helps u here it is. I am posting the mail which i sent to him. 1:Choose 2 large prime numbers p q 2:choose n=p*q z=(p-1)*(q-1) 3:choose a number relatively prime to z anc call it d. two numbers (a,b) are said to be