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Foil 92 Near and Future Projects

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
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.

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