Re: Performance of RSA key generation

Ertugrul Söylemez <es@xxxxxxxx> writes:
The average implementation uses e = 65537.

I don't understand why they don't use e=3. Is it an artifact of the
era when proper padding and its effects on provable security wasn't
understood?
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