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- From: dbrillha@dave.mis.semi.harris.com (Dave Brillhart)
- Subject: Where is the FAQ - new reader
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:37:29 GMT
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- Summary: FAQ for a new reader
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- Two quick questions from a new reader (and new to encryption) ...
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- 1.) Were can I get the most recent FAQ?
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- 2.) I am playing around with understanding RSA. Pretty simple.
- (IMHO someone, someday, will find a fast way to factor huge primes)
- Anyway, the unencrypt step requires huge (x^y mod z) calculations.
- Testing using 2-digit prime numbers still leads to computations such
- as 1014^613 mod 1147 = 385. Can you point me to a fast numerical
- algorithm for performing this type of computartion.
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- Thanks,
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- -- Dave
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