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    The RSA Encryption System and the Factorization of Large Numbers

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    Author
    Zanto, Matthew
    Advisor
    Philip Rose; Mark Parker; Jeffrey Morris
    Date of Issue
    2002-04-01
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    https://scholars.carroll.edu/handle/20.500.12647/3459
    Title
    The RSA Encryption System and the Factorization of Large Numbers
    Type
    thesis
    Abstract
    The RSA System is built upon ideas that were previously published by other cryptographic experts. In 1976, a paper entitled "New Directions in Cryptography" was written and published by Martin Heilman and Whitfield Diffie. This paper, in turn, used ideas that were previously published in Ralph Merkel's paper, "Secure Communications over Insecure Channels". The idea behind both of these papers is the use of a one-way trapdoor function, y=f{x), that has the property that if the x value is known, then y can be easily calculated. However, if y is provided, then x is either impossible or extremely difficult to calculate. This means that if a plaintext message x was encoded into the ciphertext message y, and the ciphertext message y was intercepted, it would be very difficult to get back the plaintext message x.
    Degree Awarded
    Bachelor's
    Semester
    Spring
    Department
    Mathematics, Engineering & Computer Science
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