Rivest, Shamir, And Adelman (RSA): A widely-used public key cryptosystem named after its inventors Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adelman. In RSA, the encryption key is public and different from the decryption key, which is kept secret, making it an asymmetric cryptosystem. The security of RSA relies upon the practical difficulty of factoring the product of two large prime numbers.
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