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I realize the point of the article is to make cryptography accessible, but if I'm not mistaken, their example of the use of RSA is to use it just as a substitut
by acjohnson55 13y ago
I realize the point of the article is to make cryptography accessible, but if I'm not mistaken, their example of the use of RSA is to use it just as a substitution cypher, which would be easily decrypted by frequency analysis....
- mritun 13y agoThat's correct. RSA (like everything else) is a deterministic encryption. That is why we must do one of the two: 1. Use a random padding 2. or always encrypt a random number. the former is PKCS#5, the latter is what https does.