Paper by Lenstra, Hughes, Augier, Bos, Kleinjung, and Wachter finds that two out of every one thousand RSA moduli that they collected from the web offer no security. An astonishing number of generated pairs of primes have a prime in common. Once again, it shows the importance of proper randomness (my remark).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/technology/researchers-find-flaw-in-an-online-encryption-method.html?_r=1&hp The paper: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064.pdf Mike _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
