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There are actually no 2-bit RSA keys. The smallest possible key is n=10, e=3. Conveniently, d=3 too, i.e. encryption and decryption is the same operation. I guess you can think of it as a ROT-13 of the RSA world.


Then all possible keys fit into the 0.04 bit remaining keyspace.




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