[Gllug] RSA or DSA

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On Mon, 16 May 2005, Steve Nelson suggested tentatively:
>            RSA is based on the principle (not proven) that factoring
> large primes (as a way to crack the key) is difficult.

Er, that should be large prime *products*.

Factoring a large prime N is trivially easy (at least if you know in
advance it is a prime). ;}}


But of course you knew that. ;)

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