On Aug 24, 2019, at 11:16 AM, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, keys are supposed to be two large prime numbers. Without a > registry of which numbers have been used, it would be possible for two > people to use the same prime number.
RSA keys are *generated* from two large prime numbers, but the keys themselves aren’t prime numbers. And other public key algorithms don’t necessarily involve prime numbers. -- Pew, Curtis G curtis....@austin.utexas.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
