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Foil 99 Near and Future Projects

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


1 A WWW Based Computing Project Undertaken at NPAC
2 RSA Factoring Challenge - Introduction
3 Public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication; it was invented in 1977 by Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA).
4 RSA is a public key cryptosystem, a cryptosystem where each party has two keys: a public key and a corresponding secret key.
5 The public key is made public, the secret key is kept secret.

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