Perplexing proof
Sarad AV
jtrjtrjtr2001 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 11 03:14:17 PDT 2004
--- "Major Variola (ret)" <mv at cdc.gov> wrote:
> Can someone explain how finding regularity in the
> distribution of primes
>
> would affect any modexp() system? Suppose that you
> have a function
> F(i) which gives you the i-th prime. Since the PK
> systems (eg RSA, DH)
> use *randomness* to pick primes, how does being able
> to generate
> the i-th prime help?
It doesn't affect security of RSA. It only speeds up
primality testing.
Sarath.
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