The RSA Public Key Crypto-System
The RSA Public Key Crypto-System
D. Bressoud
1989 · DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-4544-5_4
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TLDR
One of the principal motivations for the flurry of work that has been done on factorization and primality testing over the past decade has been the invention by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman in 1977 of a “public key cryptosystem” based on the fact that multiplication of two large primes is much easier then factoring the resulting product.