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==RSA encryption==
==RSA encryption==
"RSA" stands for "[[Ron Rivest|Rivest]]–[[Shamir]]–[[Adelman]]",<ref>[http://www.all-acronyms.com/?t=rsa&d=rivest%2Dshamir%2Dadelson ''AllAcronyms.com'']</ref><ref>[http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/courses/mct/Handouts/notes-6.pdf Course notes] from G6016 "Networks", at the [[University of Sussex]]</ref> the three [[MIT]] researchers who discovered the RSA algorithm in 1977.
"RSA" stands for "[[Ron Rivest|Rivest]]–[[Shamir]]–[[Adelman]]",<ref>[http://www.all-acronyms.com/?t=rsa&d=rivest%2Dshamir%2Dadelson ''AllAcronyms.com'']</ref><ref>[http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/courses/mct/Handouts/notes-6.pdf Course notes] from G6016 "Networks", at the [[University of Sussex]]</ref> the three [[MIT]] researchers who discovered the RSA algorithm in 1977. It is probably the most commonly used public key encryption at this time.
RSA is based on the fundamental difficulty of [[factoring]] large integers into [[prime]]s.
RSA is based on the fundamental difficulty of [[factoring]] large integers into [[prime]]s.