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Breaking RSA Encryption Nick Manners
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History of Cryptography Used to be strictly in the domain of governments… state secrets. Particularly important during WWII. Rise of computing and development led to the need of secure ciphers.
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DES First cipher “approved” by the NSA. Met with suspicion. Eventually proven to be too easy to crack, due to small key size.
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Paradigm Shift Paper leads to introduction of asymmetric key cryptography. Given power of computing publicly available, finally puts good cryptosystems in the public realm. Most common algorithm today: RSA encryption.
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Breaking RSA Various ways to crack it. Quantum computers? Implementation errors. Solving NP completeness. Strictly speaking, we’re ignoring other problems, such as validation.
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Debate 1. If you could break RSA, should you? 2. What are the implications of a stronger cryptosystem? An unbreakable one?
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