Re: Very best practice for RSA key generation

Phillip Hallam-Baker <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:37:11 -0400
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 7:12 PM John-Mark Gurney <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would want to fix the last bit to 1 (or it on) so you don't run the KDF
> extra times, eliminating the even numbers.
>

Absolutely. And the spec and the code say to do exactly that!

Unfortunately... I forgot to set the topmost bit to 1 which is also
important!

I turned this out on Friday to further discussions:

http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-mesh-udf.html

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