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List:       botan-devel
Subject:    [Botan-devel] Exponent in RSA
From:       lloyd () randombit ! net (Jack Lloyd)
Date:       2008-11-10 14:45:19
Message-ID: 20081110144519.GC20122 () randombit ! net
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:32:55AM +0100, Rickard Bondesson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> You can generate a RSA key with a given bit length, but is it possible
> to configure which exponent to use?

Hi,

Yes, the public exponent is (depending on if you are using 1.6 or 1.7)
the second or third argument to RSA_PrivateKey, after the bitlength;
it defaults to 65537.

-Jack


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