RSA encryption is a widely used asymmetric cryptographic algorithm that secures data transmission. It relies on the mathematical properties of prime numbers and modular arithmetic. The process involves generating a pair of keys: a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption. To encrypt a message , the sender uses the recipient's public key to compute the ciphertext using the formula:
where is the product of two large prime numbers and . The recipient then uses their private key to decrypt the ciphertext, recovering the original message with the formula:
The security of RSA is based on the difficulty of factoring the large number back into its prime components, making unauthorized decryption practically infeasible.
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