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The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luis Saiz)
Thu May 28 09:27:56 1998
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:13:30 +0200
From: Luis Saiz <LSaiz@atos-ods.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>,
"cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
OS/390 Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility Application
Programmer's Guide Version 2 Release 5 Publication No. SC23-3976-02 :
http://ppdbooks.pok.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/DOCNUM/SC23-3976/CCONTENTS
In several parts of the document it's specified that, as a restriction:
> The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.
>
It's there any (unknown to me) security reason to be this way, or itīs
an implementation/standard option??
