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1994-06-17 - Re: Prime magnitude and keys…a ?

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From: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
To: ravage@bga.com (Jim choate)
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Message ID: <94Jun17.112118edt.8280@cannon.ecf.toronto.edu>
Reply To: <199406171451.JAA29719@zoom.bga.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-06-17 15:21:38 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 08:21:38 PDT

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From: SINCLAIR  DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 08:21:38 PDT
To: ravage@bga.com (Jim choate)
Subject: Re: Prime magnitude and keys...a ?
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> I was wondering if anyone is aware of a function or test which would allow
> a person to feed PGP or other RSA algorithm a test key and then look at
> the result and determine if the key was greater or lesser than the 
> actual key? 

I hope not.  If such a thing existed (if I understand your description
correctly) RSA could be cracked by a binary search of keyspace.  The
search would be O(log(n)), meaning it would be directly linear with
the number of bits in the key.

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