Re: is breaking RSA at least as hard as factoring or vice-versa?

2006-04-08 Thread Max
Yet another paper on the topic: Deterministic Polynomial Time Equivalence of Computing the RSA Secret Key and Factoring by Jean-Sebastien Coron and Alexander May http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/208 Max - The Cryptography Mailing

Re: is breaking RSA at least as hard as factoring or vice-versa?

2006-04-03 Thread Sean W. Smith
Dan Boneh had an interesting paper on this topic a few years back giving some evidence that that breaking RSA might in fact be easier than factoring.However, it defines breaking RSA as being able to DO the private-key operation, not as knowing the private key (because the latter lets

Re: is breaking RSA at least as hard as factoring or vice-versa?

2006-04-02 Thread Taral
On 4/2/06, Travis H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm reading up on unconditionally secure authentication in Simmon's Contemporary Cryptology, and he points out that with RSA, given d, you could calculate e (remember, this is authentication not encryption) if you could factor n, which relates

Re: is breaking RSA at least as hard as factoring or vice-versa?

2006-04-02 Thread Greg Rose
At 1:41 -0600 2006/04/02, Travis H. wrote: So I'm reading up on unconditionally secure authentication in Simmon's Contemporary Cryptology, and he points out that with RSA, given d, you could calculate e (remember, this is authentication not encryption) if you could factor n, which relates the