• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.1401-1411
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• 2016

The Multi-Prime RSA and the Prime Power RSA are the variants of the RSA cryptosystem, where the Multi-Prime RSA uses the modulus $N=p_1p_2{\cdots}p_r$ for distinct primes $p_1,p_2,{\cdots},p_r$ (r>2) and the Prime Power RSA uses the modulus $N=p^rq$ for two distinct primes p, q and a positive integer r(>1). This paper analyzes the security of these systems by using the technique given by Heninger and Shacham. More specifically, this paper shows that if the $2-2^{1/r}$ random portion of bits of $p_1,p_2,{\cdots},p_r$ is given, then $N=p_1p_2{\cdots}p_r$ can be factorized in the expected polynomial time and if the $2-{\sqrt{2}}$ random fraction of bits of p, q is given, then $N=p^rq$ can be factorized in the expected polynomial time. The analysis is then validated with experimental results for $N=p_1p_2p_3$, $N=p^2q$ and $N=p^3q$.