Jon Callas <j...@callas.org> writes: >On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:03 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: >> 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. > >But Peter, CAs don't *precisely* put keys into certs. CAs certify a key that >the key creator wants to have in their cert.
This is a self-signed cert from the CA, so the key creator was the CA. Peter. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
