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Cryptography

an attack recovering an RSA private exponent from the continued fraction expansion of the public key when that exponent is unusually small.

In cryptography, Wiener's attack refers to an attack recovering an RSA private exponent from the continued fraction expansion of the public key when that exponent is unusually small. This meaning comes from Wiener (1990) in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.[1]

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References

Wiener, M. J. (1990). Cryptanalysis of short RSA secret exponents. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 36(3), 553-558. https://doi.org/10.1109/18.54902

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