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Re: The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sunder)
Thu May 28 13:04:31 1998
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:36:50 -0400
From: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
To: Luis Saiz <LSaiz@atos-ods.com>
CC: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>,
"cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
How many prime numbers do you know of that are even?
Luis Saiz 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
>
> 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??
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