RSA Part 2: Real Primes, Real Text, and a Bug That Eats Your Data
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Discussion of the blog article RSA Part 2: Real Primes, Real Text, and a Bug That Eats Your Data.
Part 1 used 15-bit primes and only encrypted integers. Making it usable means generating 1024-bit primes and chunking bytes — and the standard way to do the second one silently destroys data on inputs the tests never cover.
Discussion thread — share findings, corrections and follow-ups below.