A public key cryptosystem developed by R. Rivest; A. Shamir and L. Adleman. The RSA has two different keys; the public encryption key and the secret decryption key. The strength of the RSA depends on the difficulty of the prime number factorization.

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1. A public key cryptosystem developed by R. Rivest; A. Shamir and L. Adleman. The RSA has two different keys; the public encryption key and the secret decryption key. The strength of the RSA depends on the difficulty of the prime number factorization.