RSA

RSA

A public-key encryption method. RSA is taken from the initials of the original authors of the RSA algorithm: Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adelman.

For more information see:

• Using the RSA Algorithm for Encryption and Digital Signatures (archived)
• The Mathematical Guts of RSA Encryption (archived)
• http://everything.explained.at/RSA/ - RSA explained.