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Comment by nayuki

You can't do that because an RSA private key contains two numbers - the modulus and the exponent. Even better, an RSA private key usually has the modulus stored as its two factors rather than their product.

Also note that using small numbers like 65537 for RSA public exponents is common practice.

parent nayuki 9 days ago

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