Re: David is off to the entropy store to get some fresh entropy

2008-08-09 Thread Michael Sierchio
David Schwartz wrote: No, we count on it [RSA] being (for practical purposes) irreversible. That's why you need a different key to decrypt than you used to encrypt. If it was reversible, like say DES, you could decrypt with the same key you encrypted with by simply reversing the process.

RE: David is off to the entropy store to get some fresh entropy

2008-08-09 Thread David Schwartz
David Schwartz wrote: No, we count on it [RSA] being (for practical purposes) irreversible. That's why you need a different key to decrypt than you used to encrypt. If it was reversible, like say DES, you could decrypt with the same key you encrypted with by simply reversing the