Near and Future Projects
Near and Future Projects
A WWW Based Computing Project Undertaken at NPAC
RSA Factoring Challenge - Introduction
- Public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication; it was invented in 1977 by Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA).
- RSA is a public key cryptosystem, 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.