Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> writes: >Is there any benefit to using an exponent that factors? I always thought low >hamming weights and primality were the desired attributes for public >exponents. And I'm not sure about primality.
Seeing a CA put a key like this in a cert is a bit like walking down the street and noticing someone coming towards you wearing their underpants on their head, there's nothing inherently bad about this but you do tend to want to cross the street to make sure that you avoid them. Peter. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
