Interesting follow-up on the prime number article posted earlier. For those of you interested in how modern-day encryption works, here's a great article gleaned from ArgMax's blog: A Web-only Primer on Public-key Encryption in the September, 2002 Atlantic Monthly by Charles C. Mann.
A more mathematical explanation is here: How the RSA Cipher Works
Comments (3)
Dude, the link to the Atlantic Monthly article doesn't work.
Posted by lisa | September 4, 2002 10:28 AM
Posted on September 4, 2002 10:28
ok, I fixed it. It should work now.
Posted by teddy | September 4, 2002 12:04 PM
Posted on September 4, 2002 12:04
interesting article, i understood it much more than the "Primality" article. but they said that public encryption is not out right now, so who uses RSA cryptography? and if encryption is so difficult and time consuming, then who actually uses it? by the way, i like the picture at the top of the page, but it doesn't compare to the link on kelly's...
Posted by lisa | September 5, 2002 2:51 PM
Posted on September 5, 2002 14:51