[openssl-dev] common factors in (p-1) and (q-1)

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Mon Aug 3 14:34:57 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 02:36:03AM +0000, paul at securecottage.com wrote:
> I have looked at your latest source to see if you have a possible common
> factor for (p-1) and (q-1) in your RSA key generation code.

I've seen various proposals heres to generate what might be
stronger RSA keys.  But 1 question I have in such cases is would
it be possible to improve the factorisation knowning the
additional properties of the primes that were selected?


Kurt



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