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"If you’ve seen the low level parts of RSA keys, you’ll immediately recognise this. Otherwise, convert it to an unsigned integer and you get 65537 – a common RS
by aftbit 10y ago
"If you’ve seen the low level parts of RSA keys, you’ll immediately recognise this. Otherwise, convert it to an unsigned integer and you get 65537 – a common RSA modulus. RSA public keys require two pieces: the modulus and the public exponent. Let’s take a guess that the next piece is going to be the public exponent."
That's backwards - 65537 is a common public exponent. The modulus is the 2048-bit long thing.
Also, the writer says "2048-byte" RSA key when it's really 2048-bits.