>>>>> "Niels" == Niels M�ller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Niels> Are you reslly using the somewhat odd value 35 ('#') as public
Niels> exponent, or is it a bug in my decoder? Not that 35 is bad,
Niels> it's just that I thought that the only small exponents that
Niels> anybody uses is 3, 17 and 65537 (i.e. one either uses one of
Niels> those values, or some significantly larger and more or less
Niels> random value).

If the key is generated with the algorithms from ssh-1.12 then 33, 35,
and 37 are common values for public exponents. Nothing to worry about.

/Bj�rn




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