The algorithm allows a message sender to generate a public keys to encrypt the message and the receiver is sent a generated private key using a secured database.

Bob wants to encrypt and send Alice his age – 42. Of course, the RSA algorithm deals with sending numbers, but seeing as any text can be converted to digits in a variety of ways, we can securely ...

How a quantum computer could break 2048-bit RSA encryption in 8 hours A new study shows that quantum technology will catch up with today’s encryption standards much sooner than expected.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have announced that they have found a major weakness in the popular RSA encryption algorithm.

The RSA algorithm, in essence, allows a message to be encrypted without the sender knowing the key, says Lynn Batten, a mathematician and security researcher at Deakin University. Here's how it works.

PC noises actually leak encryption keys "By recording such [acoustic] noise while a target is using the RSA algorithm to decrypt ciphertexts (sent to it by the attacker), the RSA secret key can be ...

The rapid, continuing expansion of Internet and wireless based communications across open networks is creating an increasing need to encrypt the frequently sensitive or confidential data being ...

Amidst all of the confusion and concern over an encryption algorithm that may contain an NSA backdoor, RSA Security released an advisory to developer customers today noting that the algorithm is ...