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. |