On 2011-03-03 16:01, rachid baih wrote:
> Take any number c ( rsa encrypted message) You can continue encrypting
> process (with rsa function )
> no matter what number c you start with, you will always eventually
> reach m  the decrypted message.

This amounts to just a very inefficient way to do a brute-force search for d.

Billy O'Neal wrote:
> there's no way for the attacker to know when they've cycled back around
> to the message text, unless (s)he can control what the plaintext message is.

That's not the problem. For secure RSA padding schemes you could recognize
a valid plaintext easily enough, if it were feasible to do the number of
encryptions required, which it isn't.

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David-Sarah Hopwood  ⚥  http://davidsarah.livejournal.com

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