Ah shoot, you're right. I'm an armchair crypto geek at best. In any case, you can choose a public key exponent large enough to still make it a hard problem to

Ah shoot, you're right. I'm an armchair crypto geek at best. In any case, you can choose a public key exponent large enough to still make it a hard problem to crack in a reasonable amount of time. Barring some huge vulnerability in RSA that hasn't been discovered in 30 years of public scrutiny, of course.