Can users of rsa run out of distinct primes?



Can users of rsa run out of distinct primes?..

Answer / Shreesh Shukla

In theory, it's possible for a user to exhaust the available pool of sufficiently large and unique prime numbers needed for RSA key generation. However, in practice, there are millions of suitable large prime numbers, making this an unlikely scenario.

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