A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key Cryptosystems

We present an encryption method 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 transmit keys, since a message can be enciphered using...

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Main Authors: Rivest, Ronald L., Shamir, Adi, Adleman, Len
Published: 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148910