Re: rsa, choosing public exponential

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/30/03 

Date: 30 Apr 2003 07:35:18 -0700

omavideniz@hotmail.com (Osman Mavideniz) wrote in message news:<d0e33b5f.0304292306.31082c38@posting.google.com>...
> in rsa public key cryptography, why should we choose the
> exponential(in public key) as a number which has no common factors (or
> relatively prime)with the other exponential(in private key)? i have an
> explanation but i'm not sure of it.

Um I'm guessing english is not your first language but you might want
invest some time learning the terminology a bit...

The standard (e,d) are called *exponents*. Also the public exponent
cannot have common factors with the order of the group generated not
the private exponent.

Tom

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