New Cryptanalytic Attack on RSA Modulus N = pq Using Small Prime Difference Method
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Al-Kindi Cryptography Research Laboratory, Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor 43400, Malaysia
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Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor 43400, Malaysia
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Centre of Foundation Studies for Agriculture Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor 43400, Malaysia
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Cryptography 2019, 3(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography3010002
Received: 1 November 2018 / Revised: 14 December 2018 / Accepted: 15 December 2018 / Published: 20 December 2018
This paper presents new short decryption exponent attacks on RSA, which successfully leads to the factorization of RSA modulus in polynomial time. The paper has two parts. In the first part, we report the usage of the small prime difference method of the form where the ratio of is close to , which yields a bound from the convergents of the continued fraction expansion of . The second part of the paper reports four cryptanalytic attacks on t instances of RSA moduli for where we use as an approximation of satisfying generalized key equations of the shape , , , and for unknown positive integers , and , where we establish that t RSA moduli can be simultaneously factored in polynomial time using combinations of simultaneous Diophantine approximations and lattice basis reduction methods. In all the reported attacks, we have found an improved short secret exponent bound, which is considered to be better than some bounds as reported in the literature.
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Keywords:
RSA modulus; primes difference; cryptanalysis; short decryption exponent; attacks; continued fraction
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Kamel Ariffin, M.R.; Abubakar, S.I.; Yunos, F.; Asbullah, M.A. New Cryptanalytic Attack on RSA Modulus N = pq Using Small Prime Difference Method. Cryptography 2019, 3, 2.
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Kamel Ariffin MR, Abubakar SI, Yunos F, Asbullah MA. New Cryptanalytic Attack on RSA Modulus N = pq Using Small Prime Difference Method. Cryptography. 2019; 3(1):2.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKamel Ariffin, Muhammad R.; Abubakar, Saidu I.; Yunos, Faridah; Asbullah, Muhammad A. 2019. "New Cryptanalytic Attack on RSA Modulus N = pq Using Small Prime Difference Method" Cryptography 3, no. 1: 2.
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