> 17 is a prime, so it's relatively prime to anything

Not quite. 17 isn't relatively prime to a multiple of 17. The way the code 
works is that it takes the public exponent e as given (default 17), and then 
finds primes p and q such that p-1 and q-1 are both relatively prime to e. 



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