November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
365 pages
6h 56m
English
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8.3 Applications of the RSA Algorithm
Asymmetric key algorithm
Private key
Public key
Public-key decryption
Public-key encryption
RSA
In mid-1977, 1 year after the introduction of public-key cryptography by Diffie and Hellman, three young scientists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took the concept of public-key cryptography and developed an algorithm that is known as the RSA algorithm. It is named after the surnames of the three inventors, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. In RSA, a pair of keys is generated where one key is revealed ...
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