RSA Encryption
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URL
http://web.bentley.edu/empl/c/ncarter/MA267/rsa.html
Description
RSA Cryptography allows an individual who wants to receive encoded messages to give other people a "public key" that encrypts the messages in such a way that the person who gave the key is the only one who knows how to decrypt them. The public key is a pair of numbers. Another pair of numbers makes up a corresponding "private key," which only the creator of the keys knows, and keeps secret. It is this private key that helps you decrypt numbers.