At 07:11 PM 3/26/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> RSA is a private key system, right? Therefore, it does not rely on large
>> prime numbers, does it? I think maybe you are getting confused with public
>> key systems (such as PGP).
>
>Er...
>Actually RSA is a PUBLIC key system.
>
>Quoted from the "Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing" at
>http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html (very nice and complete):
>
><QUOTE>
>RSA encryption


<Smacks himself on the face> Sorry, of course, you are right. In fact, I
just finished writing some code for a very basic RSA implementation a
couple of weeks ago. For some unknown reason, I thought you said DES,
instead of RSA. I should think about enagaing my brain before my mouth (or
hands on keyboard, in this case).

Sean

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