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On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Jon Callas <[email protected]> writes: >> On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:03 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: >>> Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> 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. So it's like issuing yourself an Artistic License card with a color printer and laminator. :-) Good for lots of laughs. Jon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Universal 3.2.0 (Build 1672) Charset: us-ascii wj8DBQFPbIAAsTedWZOD3gYRAo4KAKDuG0OgEg81mxGUJDGlYp5OzLMI/gCgkRRq /G3T3NLS/8k1L4njuxMJMd0= =tHSy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
