Guest Lecture

12/3/99


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Table of Contents

Guest Lecture

Today’s topic

PPT Slide

What Is a Cryptosystem?

What Is a Public Key Cryptosystem?

The RSA Public Key Cryptosystem

Receiver’s Set-Up

Encrypting a Message

Decrypting A Cyphertext C

Why does it work?

Leonhard Euler 1707-1783

Why Is It Secure?

State of the Art in Factoring

Signed Messages

Signed Messages

Signed and Secret Messages

Flipping a Coin Over the Phone

Author: Snyder

Email: snyder@cs.washington.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/snyder/