> Hi Andrew,
> > How unique is it? Is it statistically improbable that I could
> > generate the
> > same key twice?
> If you have properly seeded your random generator, generated
> (RSA) keys should
> be quite unique.
It doesn't matter. Breaking an RSA key basically involves factoring a
Hi Andrew
It was a good job I asked the question I think. Gerrit and yourself have
caused me to sit down and learn a lot more about cryptography than I had
intended, but it has been very useful.
On Friday 19 Mar 2004 01:01, Andrew Mann wrote:
> I don't see that you should be using public
I don't see that you should be using public key encryption here. Why
don't you just make a secret key, encrypt your data, send the data and a
reference along with it, and output the secret key and the reference?
Public key operations are slow. If you intend to encrypt an entire
file with th
On Thursday 18 Mar 2004 16:14, Gerrit E.G. 'Insh_Allah' Hobbelt wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> > How unique is it? Is it statistically improbable that I could generate
> > the same key twice?
>
> If you have properly seeded your random generator, generated (RSA) keys
> should be quite unique.
>
Here is a
