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Comment by seanlinmt | Hacker News Reader
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seanlinmt
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Wondering if this impacts the security of public key encryption.
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JackGibbs
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As part of properly generating RSA keys there are restrictions as to how close together the two primes numbers chosen can be. So no, twin primes bear no relevance to the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)#Faulty_key_gene...
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