Timeline for How can we find Public key have only 8 or 16bits? How many messages does Eve need to know the Public key in RSA?
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| May 11, 2012 at 18:50 | comment | added | yrk | a public key is actually two numbers: $(e, N)$. While small $e$ is o.k., small $N$ implies small $d$, the private key. This is very weak. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 9:58 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | RSA below 512 bits is ridiculously broken, and RSA below 1024 bits is still pretty weak. If you want small keys/blocks, go with elliptic curves, but even they become weak below 160 bits. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 9:55 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | One can't even apply padding to 16 bit RSA. So do you want to use textbook RSA? | |
| May 9, 2012 at 4:37 | history | edited | Thu. Trân Đinh Thiên | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 9, 2012 at 1:56 | answer | added | mikeazo | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 9, 2012 at 1:44 | history | asked | Thu. Trân Đinh Thiên | CC BY-SA 3.0 |