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PKI Crumbles A Bit More

The RSA public key encryption method uses two prime numbers: p and q, and then calculates a modulus (N=p*q). If we can find one of the random prime numbers, we can easily find the other one, and then can determine the private key from the public key value. We thus need to make sure we have a completely random prime number, and one which is not easily guessable. But Keyfactor scanned over 75 million RSA certificates certficates on the Internet and…