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Subject: Re: pubkeys for p and g
From: martin f krafft <madduck () madduck ! net>
Date: 2003-06-30 20:34:47
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also sprach Arnold G. Reinhold <reinhold@world.std.com> [2003.06.29.0424 +0200]:
> >I am not sure I understand. How does this relate to my question?
> >
> >Where does the other factor come from?
>
> I got the impression, and maybe I misunderstood, that you were
> viewing a product of two primes aA, where a was the private part= and
> A was the public part. That is not how RSA works. The produce aA is
> the public key. Either factor can be the private part.
Oh, I get it. No, that was my bad. aA and bB are simply the
private/Public keypairs for A and B. Yeah, yeah, I know. Algebra is
always haunting me...
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