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[Cryptography] SSH small RSA public exponent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Hudson)
Fri Oct 11 13:35:06 2013
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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:01:23 +1000
From: Tim Hudson <tjh@cryptsoft.com>
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Does anyone recollect the history behind and the implications of the
(open) SSH choice of 35 as a hard-wired public exponent?
key.c: private = RSA_generate_key(bits, 35, NULL, NULL);
i.e. 100011 binary compared to the more typical F4 10000000000000001 binary
Thanks,
Tim.
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