On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:22:37PM +0200, Stefan Berglas wrote:
> I have a private key from an external source consisting out of moudulus
> n, public exponent e and private exponent d.
> For decrypting a message which is encrypted with the corresponding
> public key (n,e) I don't need the prime factors p and q. In crypto++
> version 3.2 and 4.0 I could not find an interface in the class
> InvertibelRSAFunction and InvertibleTrapdoorFunction to setup the
> private key (n,d) and do a raw decryption. The only way to do this is
> with modular integer arithmetic. Is that correct ?
> Is there a reason why the RSA classes cannot be used with the private
> key in the form of (n,d) ?

It's because PKCS #1 does not specify a key format for private key of the 
form (n,d).

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