Exercise · ZW-RSA-CRYPTOSYSTEM-004 · ★☆☆ Basic
What condition must the public exponent e satisfy in RSA?
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- C. gcd(e, φ(n)) = 1
Explanation
The exponent e must be coprime to φ(n) so that its inverse modulo φ(n) exists. Requiring coprimality only with n is the common mistake.
Review the concept: RSA cryptosystem
The RSA cryptosystem is a public-key encryption method based on the difficulty of factoring the product of two large primes. It uses Euler's theorem and modular inverses to encrypt and decrypt messages.
\[c \equiv m^{e} \pmod{n}, \quad m \equiv c^{d} \pmod{n}\]
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