On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:20:45 -0700, David Schwartz wrote:

[...]

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA
> 
> In the section "Operation", the first set of 5 steps beginning with
> "Choose two distinct large random prime numbers p and q" documents the
> process of computing an RSA private key.
> 
> If you want example code, the OpenSSL distribution includes that in
> appls/genrsa.c.
> 
> DS
> 
[...]

I have been looking at the article you mention, and it
does not provide enough detail.  In particular, in the
terms of that article, it indicates that Eve could
compute d if she could factor n to obtain p and q.  I
assume that if I knew how d is computed, I would see
why this is so.  I do not see this in the article,
and I have not been able to goog it.

Mike.

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