Problem 182: RSA encryption
The RSA encryption is based on the following procedure:
Generate two distinct primes p and q. Compute n=p*q and φ=(p-1)(q-1).
Find an integer e, 1 < e < φ, such that gcd(e,φ) = 1
A message in this system is a number in the interval [0,n-1]. A text to be
encrypted is then somehow converted to messages (numbers in the interval
[0,n-1]). To encrypt the text, for each message, m, c=me mod n is
calculated.
To decrypt the text, the following procedure is needed: calculate d such that
ed=1 mod φ, then for each encrypted message, c, calculate m=cd mod n.
There exist values of e and m such that me mod n = m. We call messages m
for which me mod n=m unconcealed messages.
An issue when choosing e is that there should not be too many unconcealed
messages. For instance, let p=19 and q=37. Then n=19*37=703 and
φ=18*36=648. If we choose e=181, then, although gcd(181,648)=1 it turns
out that all possible messages m (0≤m≤n-1) are unconcealed when calculating me
mod n. For any valid choice of e there exist some unconcealed messages. It's
important that the number of unconcealed messages is at a minimum.
For any given p and q, find the sum of all values of e, 1 < e < φ(p,q)
and gcd(e,φ)=1, so that the number of unconcealed messages for this value of
e is at a minimum.
Test
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