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RSA (cryptosystem) - Wikipedia

RSA comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described the algorithm in 1977

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public key based on two large prime numbers, along with an auxiliary value.

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Messages can be encrypted by anyone, via the public key, but can only be decoded by someone who knows the prime numbers

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practical difficulty of factoring the product of two large prime numbers, the “factoring problem”.

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