Prime magnitude and keys...a ?

[Christian D. Odhner]

On Fri, 17 Jun 1994, Jim choate wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone is aware of a function or test which would allow
> a person to feed PGP or other RSA algorithm a test key and then look at
> the result and determine if the key was greater or lesser than the 
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> actual key? 
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What do you mean by "greater or lesser than the actual key"? If you mean 
number of bits you can do a simply file size comparison, if you mean 
binary numerical value a simple c program _should_ be able to handle that 
without any trouble I think.... although maybe you would need to include 
some of those 'big number' routines I keep hearing about... and you would 
have to strip off any header info before computing.

Happy Hunting, -Chris.

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