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 ...

Some cryptographers are looking for RSA replacements because the algorithm is just one encryption algorithm that may be vulnerable to new machines that exploit quantum effects in electronics.

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.

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.

A toy RSA algorithm The RSA algorithm is the most popular and best understood public key cryptography system. Its security relies on the fact that factoring is slow and multiplication is fast.

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 ...

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

RSA certificates are public key certificates that use cryptographic algorithms to encrypt data and protect information being sent from devices or services to servers.

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.

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 ...