January 15, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern
Cryptography
Public-Key History
•1976 New Directions in Cryptograhy
Whit Diffie and Marty Hellman
•One-Way
functions
•Diffie-Hellman
Key Exchange
•1978 RSA paper
Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman
•RSA
Encryption System
•RSA
Digital Signature Mechanism