Small Values of the Carmichael Function and Cryptographic Applications
John Friedlander, Carl B. Pomerance, Igor E. Shparlinski · Birkhäuser Basel eBooks · 2001
We outline some cryptographic applications of the recent results of the authors about small values of the Carmichael function and the period of the power generator of pseudorandom numbers. Namely, we show rigorously that almost all randomly selected RSA moduli are safe against the so-called cycling attack and we also provide some arguments in support of the reliability of the timed-release crypto scheme, which has recently been proposed by R. L. Rivest, A. Shamir and D. A. Wagner.