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Modular Inverse for RSA in python
#!/usr/bin/env python3
p = 61
q = 53
n = p*q
phi = (p-1)*(q-1)
# Took from SO
def egcd(a, b):
if a == 0:
return (b, 0, 1)
g, y, x = egcd(b%a,a)
return (g, x - (b//a) * y, y)
def modinv(a, m):
g, x, y = egcd(a, m)
if g != 1:
raise Exception('No modular inverse')
return x%m
e = 17
d = modinv(e, phi)
print('P =', p)
print('Q =', q)
print('N =', n)
print('Phi =', phi)
print('E =', e)
print('D =', d)
print('(E*D)%Phi =', (e*d)%phi)
@mentocat
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Yo this took me forever to find, thank you so much this helped so much for my quantum computing class. You're a blessing hope that you have a good day

@WightmanC
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Struggled with the "d" this makes it so simple.

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