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The RSA Cryptosystem

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After Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman introduced public-key cryptography in their landmark 1976 paper, a new branch of cryptography suddenly opened up.

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Paar, C., Pelzl, J., Güneysu, T. (2024). The RSA Cryptosystem. In: Understanding Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-69007-9_7

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