Episode 139: Cybersecurity and Cryptocurrencies
The Science of Everything Podcast
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RSA Cryptography: Ensuring Secure Communication
This chapter focuses on RSA cryptography, discussing how public key encryption and decryption work using the example of RSA cryptography. It explains the generation of public and private keys using large prime numbers and modular arithmetic, emphasizing the importance of non-invertible functions for security. The chapter also introduces the concept of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its application in providing secure communications over the internet.
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