public RSA exponent 17 -> 65537

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meejah 2020-07-21 00:29:35 -06:00
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@ -46,18 +46,8 @@ def create_signing_keypair(key_size):
:returns: 2-tuple of (private_key, public_key)
"""
# Tahoe's original use of pycryptopp would use cryptopp's default
# public_exponent, which is 17
#
# Thus, we are using 17 here as well. However, there are other
# choices; see this for more discussion:
# https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/2335/should-rsa-public-exponent-be-only-in-3-5-17-257-or-65537-due-to-security-c
#
# Another popular choice is 65537. See:
# https://cryptography.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa/#cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.rsa.generate_private_key
# https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-right-answers.html
priv_key = rsa.generate_private_key(
public_exponent=17,
public_exponent=65537,
key_size=key_size,
backend=default_backend()
)