
Hmmm. It wouldn't have anything to do with prime numbers, now would
it? :-)

- ferg

-- Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov> wrote:

[snip]  

Steve has pointed out that 3 is recommended for DNSSEC, and NIST likes
65537 [2^16 + 1].  I don't have the maths to say why, so I'll leave it
at that.

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


