The science of encryption: prime numbers and mod n arithmetic
Go check your e-mail. You'll notice that the webpage address starts with \https://". The \s"
at the end stands for \secure" meaning that a process called SSL is being used to encode the
contents of your inbox and prevent people from hacking your account. The heart of SSL { as well
as pretty much every other computer security or encoding system { is something called a public key
encryption scheme. The rst article below describes how a public key encryption scheme works,
and the second explains the mathematics behind it: prime numbers and mod n arithmetic.
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Go check your e-mail. You'll notice that the webpage address starts with \https://". The \s"
at the end stands for \secure" meaning that a process called SSL is being used to encode the
contents of your inbox and prevent people from hacking your account. The heart of SSL { as well
as pretty much every other computer security or encoding system { is something called a public key
encryption scheme. The rst article below describes how a public key encryption scheme works,
and the second explains the mathematics behind it: prime numbers and mod n arithmetic.
Download Here
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