RSA only involves two primes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jon Perryman <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 4:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: vendor distributes their private key I vaguely recall that there was a third prime number involved in the algorithm that was static for RSA. Do they still have this third prime? Could it be that they use this to eliminate this possibility? Jon. On Saturday, August 24, 2019, 09:17:22 AM PDT, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
