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- From: weaver@kuttner.sfc.sony.com (Eric Weaver)
- Subject: Re: Breaking RSA?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.102045@kuttner.sfc.sony.com>
- Sender: weaver@kuttner (Eric Weaver)
- Organization: SONY Advanced Video Technology Center San Jose, CA USA
- References: <BznFDu.5uI@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:20:45 GMT
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- In article <BznFDu.5uI@cs.bham.ac.uk>, jwh@cs.bham.ac.uk (James Hawtin) writes:
- |> Ok so I understand now how the RSA system works, I am sure others have already asked
- |> but what is the best way to attack it?
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- If you can arrange to deliver ciphertext and see the decrypted plaintext,
- I have heard it said that a ciphertext frame of ...00002 will show up the
- private key nicely. I think one can work out a test of this with small keys.
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- Moral: Don't decrypt such a frame!
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- Eric Weaver Sony AVTC 677 River Oaks Pkwy, MS 35 SJ CA 95134 408 944-4904
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