Near and Future Projects
Near and Future Projects
WWW-Based Project Undertaken at NPAC
RSA Factoring Challenge
- Public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication; invented in 1977 by Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA).
- RSA a cryptosystem where each party has two keys: a public key and a corresponding secret key.
- The public key is made public, the secret key is kept secret.