On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:42:35 +0000, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
>RSA only involves two primes. See >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem) ________________________________________ From: Jon Perryman Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 4:29 PM 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? Are you thinking, perhaps, of Diffie-Hellman? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange#General_overview -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
