Computer Science · Security & Cryptography
A topic within Security & Cryptography, itself one of 16 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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Computerphile
Uses paint mixing to show why a one-way function lets two strangers agree a shared secret over a channel an eavesdropper is reading, which is the whole basis of public-key cryptography.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir & Leonard Adleman
Introduces RSA, the first practical public-key cryptosystem, resting security on the difficulty of factoring.
link checked 17 Sept 2026