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PSA: Do Not Use the New Prime Number for RSA Encryption
- ikeboy 11y ago"Don't do something that literally no one was going to do, so I can show off my math knowledge" is more like it.
- cyphar 11y agoThis is a copy of my comment from the other posting of this article: What a pointless article. Not only doesn't it get into the interesting side-effects of choosing Mersenne primes as your private key (which is actually interesting, as the bit pattern of a*b is very apparent when you multiple two Mersenne primes). The whole thing is just talking about "don't use this shiny new prime because people will notice that you have very long public keys". It glosses over how key generation actually works, and I really don't understand why the author felt like wasting people's time with such lack of content.