[openssl.org #926]

2004-09-18 Thread Geoff Thorpe via RT
Sorry for the delay, this ticket slipped through the net, and Nils Larsch recently brought it to my attention. Vadim Fedukovich wrote: [snip] I'm particular interested exactly why it is believed that gcd(p-1,e)==1 and gcd(q-1,e)==1 (according to comments in the source). [snip] The gcd()

[openssl.org #926]

2004-07-28 Thread via RT
Hello, I'm interested in views/comments on RSA keys generation. Namely, testing whether (p-1)(q-1) is relatively prime to e. It seems both p and q generated are not strong primes so there might be (a slim) chance for e to divide p-1 or q-1. However, this check (together with changing e) is