Codex Wiki OurBigBook logoOurBigBook.comSite Source code
Knowledge of a valid public and private exponent gives , a nonzero multiple of . Writing it as with odd and testing random bases produces a nontrivial square root of one modulo with high probability; a greatest common divisor then factors . Thus one customer's private key under a shared semiprime modulus compromises every exponent using that modulus.

Ancestors (5)

  1. RSA cryptosystem
  2. Algebra
  3. Area of mathematics
  4. Mathematics
  5. Home