The statement of the problem can be found here.
In this problem we are given two primes p and q that are used to generate an n for an RSA key-pair.
As it states to complete a key pair one must choose an exponent e in the range but for each e there will be a number of unconcealed messages, this means that .
The number of unconcealed messages for an exponent e in modulo N with is equal to
Knowing this it is pretty easy to write a code that finds the exponents that generate the fewer unconcealed messages and add them up. The python source code can be downloaded (problem182.py):
import gmpy
if __name__ == '__main__':
p = 1009
q = 3643
n = p * q
phi_n = n - p - q + 1
result = 0
min_res = 9999999999999
for e in range(1, phi_n):
if gmpy.gcd(e, phi_n) != 1:
continue
num_unconcealed = (gmpy.gcd(e-1, p-1) + 1) * (gmpy.gcd(e-1, q-1) + 1)
if num_unconcealed < min_res:
min_res = num_unconcealed
result = e
elif num_unconcealed == min_res:
result += e
print("The result is: {0}".format(result))