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RSA Cryptography
November 16, 2010
In 1973, Clifford Cocks invented a method of public-key cryptography in which the recipient of a message holds a private key, known only to himself, and publishes a public key, which may be used by anyone to send him a message that only he will be able to read. Cocks worked for the British security service GCHQ, so he was unable to publish his work. In 1978, three MIT professors, Ronald L. Rivest, Leonard M. Adelman and Adi Shamir invented the same algorithm, independently, which they patented in 1983. The algorithm is now known as RSA, after their initials.
The basic idea of RSA starts with two large prime numbers of equal bit-length, p and q; their product n becomes the modulus of the cryptosystem. The totient of n is computed as φ(pq) = (p−1) × (q−1). Then two keys are chosen, the encryption key e and the decryption key d, such that de ≡ 1 (mod φ(pq)) and gcd(e, φ(pq)) = 1. Then, given a message m, an integer on the range 0 < m <n, the message is encrypted by computing me (mod n) and the resulting cipher-text c is decrypted by computing cd (mod n).
In practice, the keys are generated by selecting a bit-length k and and arbitrary encryption key e. A longer bit-length provides more security than a shorter bit-length; a 768-bit key has recently been factored, albeit with extreme effort (about 2000 PC-years), most commercial users of RSA are probably using 1024- or 2048-bit keys these days, and high-security users (banks, military, government, criminals) are probably using 4096- or 8192-bit keys. E must be odd, is frequently chosen to be prime to force the condition that it is co-prime to the totient, and is generally fairly small; e = 216+1 = 65537 is common. Then the key generator chooses p and q at random, computes d as the modular inverse of e, and reports n and d. In that way, nobody, not even the person generating the keys, knows p and q.
Here is a simple example from Wikipedia: Choose p = 61 and q = 53. Then n = p×q = 3233 and the totient φ(pq) = 60×52 = 3120. Choose e=17 which is co-prime to 3120 since 17 is prime and 17∤3120; the corresponding d is the inverse of 17 with respect to the modulus 3120, so d = 2753. Then the message m = 65 is encrypted as c = me (mod n) = 6517 (mod 3233) = 2790, and the cipher-text 2790 is decrypted as m = cd (mod n) = 27902753 (mod 3233) = 65.
The standard definition of RSA cryptography is known as PKCS #1. It provides a method for converting a text message to a number m suitable for encryption, and converting it back to the original text message, but we won't examine that algorithm today. It is also possible to use RSA to provide non-forgeable signatures; the basic idea is that the sender encrypts a message hash with his decryption key, so the receiver can decrypt the message hash with the sender's public key, which works because only the sender knows his private decryption key.
Your task is to write an RSA key generator and procedures to encrypt and decrypt messages using the RSA algorithm as described above. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
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November 17, 2010 at 4:33 AM
Racket (with shameless use of libraries):
#! /bin/sh
#| Hey Emacs, this is -*-scheme-*- code!
exec racket -l errortrace –require "$0″ –main — ${1+"$@"}
;; https://programmingpraxis.com/2010/11/16/rsa-cryptography/ but of
;; course also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsa
#lang racket
(require rackunit rackunit/text-ui
(planet soegaard/math/math)
(define *bit-length* (make-parameter 10))
(define (random-prime)
(let* ([min (expt 2 (sub1 (*bit-length*)))]
[r (+ min (big-random min))])
(next-prime r)))
(provide make-keys)
(define (make-keys [defaults? #f])
(let* (
[p (if defaults? 61 (random-prime))]
[q (if defaults? 53 (random-prime))]
[n (* p q)]
[φ (* (sub1 p) (sub1 q))]
[e (if defaults? 17 65537)]
[d (inverse e φ)]
(values (cons n e) ;public
(cons d (cons n e)) ;private
(provide encrypt-integer)
(define (encrypt-integer m pubkey)
(match-define (cons n e) pubkey)
(with-modulus n (^ m e)))
(provide decrypt-integer)
(define (decrypt-integer c privkey)
(match-define (cons d (cons n e)) privkey)
(with-modulus n (^ c d)))
(define-test-suite praxis-tests
(let ()
;; example from Programming Praxis
(define-values (pub priv) (make-keys #t))
(check-equal? (encrypt-integer 65 pub) 2790)))
(define-test-suite random-tests
(for ([_ (in-range 5)])
(define-values (pub priv) (make-keys))
(define plaintext (big-random (car pub)))
(check-equal? (decrypt-integer (encrypt-integer plaintext pub) priv) plaintext)
(printf "W00t~%")))
(define-test-suite all-tests
(provide main)
(define (main . args)
;; This indirectly affects big-random. Feh.
(random-source-randomize! default-random-source)
(exit (run-tests all-tests 'verbose)))
November 19, 2010 at 1:58 PM
Once again, my submission is entirely too large to fit here nicely.
The problem: I needed to either import some number-theoretic functions (Extended Euclidean Algorithm, primality
test), or define them myself if the incredible gmpy library is unavailable for the Python installation being used.
Though I'm certainly biased, I'm a huge fan of the mathematical exercises here! Sorry it took so long for me to get to
January 10, 2011 at 5:44 PM
Works for any N = 18, the integers get too big.
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
* Cryptography.
* Generates public and private keys used in encryption and
* decryption
* Author: Jamie
* Version: Dec 27, 2011
public class RSA
private final static BigInteger one = new BigInteger("1");
private final static SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
// prime numbers
private BigInteger p;
private BigInteger q;
// modulus
private BigInteger n;
// totient
private BigInteger t;
// public key
private BigInteger e;
// private key
private BigInteger d;
private String cipherText;
* Constructor for objects of class RSA
public RSA(int N)
p = BigInteger.probablePrime(N/2, random);
q = BigInteger.probablePrime(N/2, random);
// initialising modulus
n = p.multiply(q);
// initialising t by euler's totient function (p-1)(q-1)
t = (p.subtract(one)).multiply(q.subtract(one));
// initialising public key ~ 65537 is common public key
e = new BigInteger("65537");
public int generatePrivateKey()
d = e.modInverse(t);
return d.intValue();
public String encrypt(String plainText)
String encrypted = "";
for(int i = 0; i < plainText.length(); i++){
char m = plainText.charAt(i);
BigInteger bi1 = BigInteger.valueOf(m);
BigInteger bi2 = bi1.modPow(e, n);
m = (char) bi2.intValue();
encrypted += m;
cipherText = encrypted;
return encrypted;
public String decrypt()
String decrypted = "";
for(int i = 0; i < cipherText.length(); i++){
char c = cipherText.charAt(i);
BigInteger bi1 = BigInteger.valueOf(c);
BigInteger bi2 = bi1.modPow(d, n);
c = (char) bi2.intValue();
decrypted += c;
return decrypted;
April 17, 2011 at 9:17 AM
I solved it in Clojure- my solution is available here: https://github.com/topher200/rsa-cryptography
I also made a small blog post about it here: http://blog.tophernet.com/2011/04/rsa-cryptography-in-clojure.html

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Al Qaeda trying to harness toxin for bombs, U.S. officials fear
Yemen affiliate seeks castor beans to make ricin for attacks on America
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By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER via The New York Times
American counterterrorism officials are increasingly concerned that the most dangerous regional arm of Al Qaeda is trying to produce the lethal poison ricin, to be packed around small explosives for attacks against the United States.
For more than a year, according to classified intelligence reports, Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has been making efforts to acquire large quantities of castor beans, which are required to produce ricin, a white, powdery toxin that is so deadly that just a speck can kill if it is inhaled or reaches the bloodstream.
Intelligence officials say they have collected evidence that Qaeda operatives are trying to move castor beans and processing agents to a hideaway in Shabwa Province, in one of Yemen's rugged tribal areas controlled by insurgents. The officials say the evidence points to efforts to secretly concoct batches of the poison, pack them around small explosives, and then try to explode them in contained spaces, like a shopping mall, an airport or a subway station.
President Obama and his top national security aides were first briefed on the threat last year and have received periodic updates since then, top aides said. Senior American officials say there is no indication that a ricin attack is imminent, and some experts say the Qaeda affiliate is still struggling with how to deploy ricin as an effective weapon.
These officials also note that ricin's utility as a weapon is limited because the substance loses its potency in dry, sunny conditions, and unlike many nerve agents, it is not easily absorbed through the skin. Yemen is a hot, dry country, posing an additional challenge to militants trying to produce ricin there.
But senior American officials say they are tracking the possibility of a threat very closely, given the Yemeni affiliate's proven ability to devise plots, including some thwarted only at the last minute: a bomb sewn into the underwear of a Nigerian man aboard a commercial jetliner to Detroit in December 2009, and printer cartridges packed with powerful explosives in cargo bound for Chicago 10 months later.
"The potential threat of weapons of mass destruction, likely in a simpler form than what people might imagine but still a form that would have a significant psychological impact, from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, is very, very real," Michael E. Leiter, who retired recently as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said at a security conference last month. "It's not hard to develop ricin."
A range of administration officials have stated that the threat of a major attack from Al Qaeda's main leadership in Pakistan has waned after Osama bin Laden's death in May, on top of the Central Intelligence Agency's increasing drone assaults on Qaeda targets in Pakistan's tribal areas over the past three years.
But the continuing concern over a ricin plot underscores the menace that regional Qaeda affiliates, especially Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, now pose to the United States and American interests overseas.
"That line of threat has never abated," said a senior American official, who referred to the terrorist group by its initials. "That's been taken seriously by this government. What we know about A.Q.A.P. is that they do what they say."
'Basic scientific knowledge' Al Qaeda's arm in Yemen has openly discussed deploying ricin and other deadly poisons against the United States. "Brothers with less experience in the fields of microbiology or chemistry, as long as they possess basic scientific knowledge, would be able to develop other poisons such as ricin or cyanide," the organization posted to its online English-language journal, Inspire, last fall, in an article titled "Tips for Our Brothers in the United States of America."
Senior administration officials say ricin is among the threats focused on by a secret government task force created after the printer-cartridge plot. The task force is working closely with Saudi intelligence officials and the remnants of Yemen's intelligence agencies, and it is using information gleaned from the shipboard interrogation of a Somali terrorist leader with ties to the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda, who was captured by Navy Seal commandos in April.
The intelligence reports indicating ricin plots by Al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate were first uncovered during reporting for a book, "Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda." It will be published next week by Times Books, an imprint of Henry Holt & Company.
American officials now say that Al Qaeda's most direct threat to the United States comes from the Yemeni affiliate. These officials have also expressed growing alarm at the way the affiliate is capitalizing on the virtual collapse of Yemen's government to widen its area of control inside the country, and is strengthening its operational ties to the Shabab, the Islamic militancy in Somalia, to exploit the chaos in both countries.
"It continues to demonstrate its growing ambitions and strong desire to carry out attacks outside its region," Daniel Benjamin, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, said in a speech last month, referring to Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch.
The affiliate has also become a magnet for terrorists fleeing the increasing pressure from drone strikes in Pakistan, and is recruiting specialists in bomb-making and other skills. "These guys have got some notoriety," said a senior United States official who follows Al Qaeda and its affiliates closely. "They have a natural, charismatic attraction value for people who want to be jihadists and plot against the West."
"A.Q.A.P.'s senior leaders are a lot like an organization that's largely a brain that exists on its own and has to recruit its arms and legs to actually execute things," the official continued.
Largely because of the Americans in the Yemeni affiliate's top leadership, including Anwar al-Awlaki, a cleric born in New Mexico who is in hiding in Yemen, American counterterrorism and intelligence officials fear the affiliate's innovative agility. "The fastest-learning enemy we have is A.Q.A.P.," said the senior United States official.
In recent months, as the Yemeni government has become nearly paralyzed, the Obama administration has stepped up pressure on the Qaeda affiliate there. It has escalated a campaign of airstrikes carried out by the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command with the C.I.A.'s help. The C.I.A. is building a base in the region to serve as a hub for future operations in Yemen.
The Pentagon's air campaign in Yemen was renewed in May after a nearly yearlong hiatus; since then the military has carried out at least four airstrikes in the country.
Unconventional weapons The ricin plots believed to be emanating from Yemen are the latest example of terrorists' desire to obtain and deploy unconventional weapons in attacks. In 1995, the Aum Shinrikyo cult released sarin nerve gas on underground trains in Tokyo, killing 12 people and injuring more than 5,000, and nearly paralyzing one of the world's leading economies for weeks.
In 2003, British and French operatives broke up suspected Qaeda cells that possessed components and manuals for making ricin bombs and maps of the London subway system.
A ricin-dispersing bomb detonated in a major subway system or in a mall or at a major airport would not result in mass destruction on the scale of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, counterterrorism specialists said. But it could inflict disproportionate psychological terror on big-city transportation systems. "Is it going to kill many people? No," said Mr. Leiter, the former counterterrorism official. "Is it going to be a big news story and is it going to scare some people? Yes."
Months after the initial ricin intelligence reports surfaced last year, Saudi intelligence officials revealed a twist to the ricin plot: Qaeda operatives were trying to place the toxin in bottles of perfume, especially a popular local fragrance made of the resin of agarwood, and send those bottles as gifts to assassinate government officials and law enforcement and military officers. There is no indication that Al Qaeda ever succeeded with this approach, intelligence officials said.
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AWOL Muslim soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot
WACO, Texas – Walking around a gun store one day last summer, the young man never took off his sunglasses as he asked questions about items he piled on the counter — behavior that struck the manager as odd.
Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo had already traveled hundreds of miles since going AWOL from Fort Campbell, Ky., three weeks earlier. He bought a gun from an online seller in Nashville and paid cash for thousands of dollars of bomb-making components at a major Dallas-area retail store. Trying to avoid being caught, he wore a baseball cap and sunglasses most of the time, never used credit cards while staying in motels and traveling by bus or cab, and he had his roommate's driver's license.
But his luck ran out in Killeen, a city about 150 miles southwest of Dallas and near one of the nation's largest Army posts — Fort Hood. Guns Galore manager Cathy Cheadle "just had this feeling" about him. She and an employee talked about it and then called police — who had Abdo in custody less than 24 hours later at a motel, where authorities say he had started to build a bomb. Police hadn't even known his name or background until they detained him.
A federal jury Thursday convicted Abdo, a Muslim soldier, on six charges in connection with his failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood troops, his religious mission to get "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
"A disaster was averted because somebody picked up the phone and made a call," prosecutor Mark Frazier told The Associated Press after the trial. "The people who work in businesses like this are vigilant ... and risked being embarrassed if their suspicions turned out to be nothing, but that's what we want people to do."
Abdo was convicted of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempted murder of U.S. officers or employees, and four counts of possessing a weapon in furtherance of a federal crime of violence. He faces up to life in prison. U.S. District Judge Walter Smith is set to sentence Abdo in July.
Abdo, 22, did not stand with his attorneys when jurors and the judge entered the room, and he showed no emotion when each of the six guilty verdicts was read by the court clerk. Abdo, who's been accused of spitting blood on authorities escorting him and a jailer, wore a mask covering his nose and mouth throughout the trial.
Abdo's lead attorney, Zach Boyd, told jurors during closing arguments that he should be acquitted because his plan never progressed beyond preparation.
When authorities detained Abdo at a Killeen motel July 27, they found bomb-making components, a loaded gun, 143 rounds of ammunition, a stun gun and magazine article on how to make an explosive device.
In a recorded police interview, Abdo said he was planning an attack in the Fort Hood area "because I don't appreciate what my unit did in Afghanistan."
He told authorities he planned to put the bomb in a busy restaurant filled with soldiers, wait outside and shoot anyone who survived — and become a martyr after police killed him. Abdo told an investigator that he didn't plan an attack inside Fort Hood because he didn't believe he would be able to get through security at the gates, according to testimony.
During the four-day trial, a recorded jail conversation was played for jurors in which Abdo told his mother his religion inspired his actions and he was seeking "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Their suffering is my suffering," he said.
Abdo became a Muslim when he was 17. He enlisted in the military in 2009, thinking that the service wouldn't conflict with his religious beliefs. But according to his essay that was part of his conscientious objector status application, Abdo reconsidered as he explored Islam further. That status was put on hold after he was charged with possessing child pornography — about two months before he went AWOL.
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Lessons of a Long-Distance Commuter
Several years ago, when our company acquired Southwest Florida's Gulfshore Life magazine, I didn't realize I'd soon be whizzing up and down I-75 between our Naples and Sarasota offices. With modern technology to keep us connected, who needed to waste time on the road? And in fact, hundreds of e-mails do fly back and forth between our offices every day, containing invoices, ideas, sales reports, stories at various stages in the editing process and even completed page layouts. But I soon learned you can't build trust or develop a sense of place over the Internet. Nothing replaces showing up. Once I started working in Naples one or two days a week, everything, from office politics to figuring out the work flow, got easier.
Most people commiserate when they hear about that commute, but so far, I've actually enjoyed it. There's something freeing about being suspended between two worlds for a few hours every now and then, with pretty scenery flashing by and your own private thoughts for company. The experience has even offered a few life lessons, which I'm happy to share in this business annual.
1. Life in the fast lane requires the proper fuel.
I used to be a fast-food snob, but eating breakfast and sometimes dinner on the road saves time-and provides diversion, too. Plus, these days, even drive-thrus offer healthy options. I recommend: scrambled eggs and a bagel from MacDonalds or a chicken whopper-hold the mayo and toss the bread-from Burger King.
2. Commuters can dress for success with less. Or to put it in business-speak, expansion brings economies of scale, including to your wardrobe. This may horrify the fashion-conscious, but it was a glorious morning for me when I realized that no one in Naples had seen me yesterday and I could stop rummaging through my chaotic closet, pull out that nice black knit suit again and dash right out the door.
3. The road may seem to go on forever, but it all could end in a millisecond. Fretting about an upcoming meeting, I was following a big semi in the left-hand lane when a giant piece of tread flew off one of its tires and right into my path. I can still hear the shuddering boom of the impact. My car had $1,300 worth of damage, but the real destruction was to my foolish confidence in an eternal future. Life can be fleeting and fragile, I saw in that moment; be grateful for every minute you get.
4. Business can increase your riches, but art enriches your life.
With four hours in the car some days, I figured I'd start listening to books on tape or CDs, but public radio keeps me mesmerized the entire time. Going south, you can start out with Tampa's WUSF or WMNF, then switch over to Fort Myers' WGCU. I've not only learned more about music, current events and a world of esoteric subjects; thanks to excellent local programs and commentators, I've also picked up story ideas and some new writers. I can even thank NPR for my new favorite recipe: Beer Butt Chicken. (Insert an open can of beer into "the south end of a chicken headed north," as the commentator so eloquently described it; cook on a covered grill for an hour or so; then dive into the most tender, delicious chicken you'll ever taste.)
5. Never pass up a chance for a pit stop.
I'd just polished off another bottle of water and Sarasota was still an hour away. But when the rain started sputtering I decided to pass by the exit and its bathrooms. Two hours later, creeping towards North Port in the mother of all traffic jams, I was enduring agony that only another middle-aged woman could understand.
6. Smart entrepreneurs know when to exit.
But they need to figure it out on their own, since those new exit signs on I-75 don't offer any help. I know-there's a whole science behind them, with the new numbers based on how far you are from the end of the Interstate so you can calculate the distance from one exit to the next. But I'm more interested in finding the right exit than doing the math; and in my opinion, three numbers are one too many. I could remember Exit 17, but Exit 111 will forever elude my mind.
7. Don't let gadflies divert you from your journey.
Truckers honk. It's just what they do. But I didn't know that; and when it happened three times in one afternoon, I decided there must be something wrong with my car. I pulled off in Punta Gorda, got out to check my tires and promptly tripped over a crack in the parking lot, fracturing my toe and my dignity.
8. It really is the trip and not the destination.
When you're speeding up and down I-75, you can't really stop and smell the flowers, but you are forced to look at the big picture. And what a big and beautiful picture it is! On the busiest highway in Southwest Florida, nature unrolls a never-ending spectacle. Early-morning fog casts a milky, mysterious veil over pastures and pinelands; flocks of egrets flash white across the horizon; cows and hawks, motionless in the midday heat, stand sentinel by the road; towering thunderheads mass over the Myakka River; and Charlotte Harbor shimmers rosily in the setting sun. Twice I've even seen deer emerge from the woods and teeter, big-eyed and tentative, right on the edge of the asphalt. Every day I'm reminded of what's at stake in the region's struggle to balance prosperity and growth with our precious natural resources; and every day, for a minute or two, at least, my own little affairs and aspirations fade to their proper perspective.


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A newly approved Sonoma Boulevard plan won"t immediately pave the way for improvements, but it does set the stage to make the corridor safer, more attractive and conducive to business, Vallejo officials said.
Amid kudos to city staff, the City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a framework for future developments on one of the city"s main arteries.
"Great job," said Councilwoman Marti Brown, who cited a long public planning process resulting in little, if any, controversy surrounding the project.
The plan, impacting a 5.5-mile stretch between Curtola Parkway and Highway 37, is meant to present a vision and specific actions to improve the street.
Longer-range improvements for Sonoma Boulevard include landscaped medians, new businesses, wider and safer sidewalks, and encouraging pockets of new businesses to attract more people to the street.
Any future improvements are a long way down the road, even such "quick win" ideas such as adding bike lanes and new lights, plus using vacant parcels for temporary uses, city staff said.
Street-striping to denote bike paths and crosswalks, paid for with an already secured grant, could take between one and two years to complete, Senior Planner Michelle Hightower said.
Such delays led Mayor Osby Davis to call for city staff to focus on finding grants and create a detailed action plan for moving forward.
"I"m more concerned about the details," Davis said.
City Manager Dan Keen said the goal is to engage the city"s grant writer to implement the plan as soon as possible.
A so-called "implementation committee" has already formed to meet monthly to consider what can be done quickly and will have the most impact, Associate Planner Bill Tuikka said.
Committee members include business owners, citizens who participated in the public planning process and other stakeholders.
Further, the city will look at ways to allow for interim uses while launching into creating a more detailed plan which will flesh out the overall goals contained in the framework.
Another aim is to engage businesses along the corridor to explore funding opportunities and quick measures that can be taken for the greatest impact and bolster economic activity, said Ursula Luna-Reynosa, economic development director.
No one from the audience spoke on this particular matter, but several residents, attending for other purposes, called out "Thank you" and "Thumbs up" after the plan was presented.
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