[Cryptography Team] rsa e=3

[Ron Teitelbaum]

Here is another reference to look at:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg01299.html  

"The draft revision of the US Federal digital signature
standard, Draft FIPS 186-3, requires that the RSA public
exponent e be an odd positive integer >= 65,537.
See Appendix B.3.1 Criteria for IFC Key Pairs on p. 61:

  (b) The exponent e shall be an odd positive integer such that
          65,537 <= e < 2**(nlen - 2*security_strength)
      where nlen is the length of the modulus n in bits.

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts.html#fips186-3
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/fips_186-3/Draft-FIPS-186-3%20_Marc
h2006.pdf

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Ron Teitelbaum