[comp.unix.i386] RSA data-encryption

peter@ncsbv.UUCP (Peter Jannesen) (07/16/90)

I know this is not the correct group to ask the following question but I now
no a better group (I am following this group for some time now).

Somebody ask my to day of I know something about RSA.

RSA is a data encryption standaard. It seems to be the next step after DES.
There are two key 1 key to encrypt the message and 1 to decrypt. So if the send 
key get public it is still not posible to decrypt the message. 

Is there somebody out there know now something about RSA or where know where
I can get the specs.


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omerzu@quando.quantum.de (Thomas Omerzu) (07/17/90)

In article <437@ncsbv.UUCP> peter@ncsbv.UUCP (Peter Jannesen) writes:

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>Is there somebody out there know now something about RSA or where know where
>I can get the specs.

Have a look at
    Rivest, R.L., Shamir, A. and Adleman, L.
    'A Method of obtaining digital signatures and public key cryptosystems'
    Communications of the ACM, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 120-126, Feb. 1978

That's the original article from the authors of that algorithm.


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