One of the most common encryption schemes, the RSA algorithm, is based on prime numbers. It uses a “public key,” information that is publicly available, and a “private key,” something that ...

Internet security firm RSA ... its algorithms in its latest crypto Factoring Challenge, with cash prizes of up to $200,000 at stake. Cryptography experts must determine the two prime numbers ...

Don't know if you've heard, but there's a new largest known prime number in town. On 26 December, mathematicians scored a late Christmas present when a computer owned by a 51-year-old engineer in ...

Long strings of numbers are essential ... difficult to find the prime numbers that multiply together to yield very large numbers. The inventors of the RSA algorithm published a list of RSA keys ...