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PKCS#1 is the first standard published by RSA Security, which was setup by the inventors of RSA, Rivest, Shamir and Adleman. It describes how the RSA problem can be used to perform secure signature generation and encryption.

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What security authorities and standards reject $e=3$ in RSA, when, and with what rationale?

The advice to avoid $e=3$ comes down primarily to superstition, historical inertia, and general caution, rather than anything with a solid technical basis. Historically, some of the early schemes tha …
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