Why does RSA decryption need to verify the public key?

jared.peng_jared.pen · October 19, 2021, 2:13am

As far as I know, N + E is the public key, and N + D is the private key.
So I don’t know why the public key E needs to be verified when decrypting with a private key.
In theory, E is not necessary.

jared.peng_jared.pen · October 19, 2021, 2:38am

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Why does RSA decryption need to verify the public key?

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