RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem, one of the oldest widely used for secure data transmission. The initialism "RSA" comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described the algorithm in 1977.
An encryption method is presented with the novel property that publicly revealing an encryption key does not thereby reveal the corresponding decryption key. This has two important consequences: (1) Couriers or other secure means are not needed to ...
R.L. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. Adleman Abstract An encryption method is presented with the novel property that publicly re-vealing an encryption key does not thereby reveal the corresponding decryption key. This has two important consequences: 1. Couriers or other secure means are not needed to transmit keys, since a
S.L. Graham, R.L. Rivest* Editors A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public- Key Cryptosystems R. L. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. Adleman MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Department of Mathematics An encryption method is presented with the novel property that publicly revealing an encryption key