Re: My First Encryption Program

j1mb0jay <j1mb0jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I always get confused when i see "probabilistic methods" I thought
that Diffie-Hellman and RSA methods
would be insecure, or not even work at all if the number was not
actually a prime.

Probably insecure. But if the failure probability can be controlled it
may not matter. I wouldn't worry if the probability of failure is about
the same as the probability that an attacker guesses your secret keys.

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Kristian Gjøsteen
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