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13: RSA and Digital Signatures

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RSA was among the first public-key cryptography developed. It was first described in 1978, and is named after its creators, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman. { }^{1} RSA can be used as a building block for public-key encryption and digital signatures. In this chapter we discuss only the application of RSA for digital signatures.


{ }^{1} Clifford Cocks developed an equivalent scheme in 1973, but it was classified since he was working for British intelligence.


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