Random keys ?
A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security
PADGETT at hobbes.orl.mmc.com
Sat Mar 2 16:43:38 PST 1996
> This does not demonstrate that the RSA keys are as well
>distributed, but it does generate some confidence that the key
>generation methods of PGP are not very broken. Testing for RSA
>generation would be more difficult, since there are some practical
>difficulties in getting a large sample of RSA private keys.
True but do not need private keys, just public ones (one to one relation),
should be able to get a large sample (20,000 in one place did I hear ?)
of those.
Warmly,
Padgett
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