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RE: The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Beattie, Doug)
Thu May 28 12:13:39 1998
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:56:01 -0400
From: "Beattie, Doug" <Doug.Beattie@GSC.GTE.Com>
To: Luis Saiz <LSaiz@atos-ods.com>
Cc: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>, cryptography@c2.net
The exponent must be relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1) where p and q are =
prime
numbers.
Doug
On Thursday, May 28, 1998 4:14 AM, Luis Saiz [SMTP:LSaiz@atos-ods.com]
wrote:
> 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
>=20
>=20
>=20
> In several parts of the document it's specified that, as a
> restriction:
>=20
>=20
> > The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.
> >
> It's there any (unknown to me) security reason to be this way, or
> it=B4s
> an implementation/standard option??
>=20
>=20
