• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.1089-1097
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• 2016

It is well-known that, if additional information other than a plaintext-ciphertext pair is available, breaking the RSA cryptosystem may be much easier than factorizing the RSA modulus. For example, Coppersmith showed that, given the 1/2 fraction of the least or most significant bits of one of two RSA primes, the RSA modulus can be factorized in a polynomial time. More recently, Henecka et. al showed that the RSA private key of the form (p, q, d, $d_p$, $d_q$) can efficiently be recovered whenever the bits of the private key are erroneous with error rate less than 23.7%. It is notable that their algorithm is based on counting the matching bits between the candidate key bit string and the given decayed RSA private key bit string. And, extending the algorithm, this paper proposes a new RSA private key recovery algorithm using a generalized probabilistic measure for measuring the consistency between the candidate key bits and the given decayed RSA private key bits.