Comment by commandersaki
6 days ago
Thanks, I thought about this a bit more. Would the security argument for using the Carmichael function essentially be the same as RSA with totient function, as the adversary can always find d that satisfies either function (Carmichael or Euler totient) regardless of which function is used?
Correct. You could construct a weird scenario with a buggy side channel attack where using a different value for d would matter, but generally speaking the attacker doesn't know and doesn't care what value (out of the infinitely large number of options!) you're using.