RSA (cryptosystem) (Formula)
RSA (cryptosystem)
1977 AD
Public-key cryptosystem that is widely used for secure data transmission which takes its name from the surnames of the inventors Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman.
An equivalent system was developed secretly, in 1973 at GCHQ (the British signals intelligence agency), by the English mathematician Clifford Cocks.
The security of RSA relies on the practical difficulty of factoring the product of two large prime numbers, the "factoring problem".
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