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Abstract: In 1982, Quisquater and Couvreur proposed an RSA variant, called RSA-CRT, based on the Chinese Remainder Theorem to speed up RSA decryption. In 1990, Wiener suggested another RSA variant, called Rebalanced-RSA, which further speeds up RSA decryption by shifting decryption costs to encryption costs. However, this approach essentially maximizes the encryption time since the public exponent e is generally about the same order of magnitude as the RSA modulus. In this paper, we introduce two variants of Rebalanced-RSA in which the public exponent e is much smaller than the modulus, thus reducing the encryption costs, while still maintaining low decryption costs. For a 1024-bit RSA modulus, our fi rst variant (Scheme A) offers encryption times that are at least 2.6 times faster than that in the original Rebalanced-RSA, while the second variant (Scheme B) offers encryption times at least 3 times faster. In both variants, the decrease in encryption costs is obtained at the expe