A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems

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Summary

An encryption method is presented with the novel property that publicly revealing an encryption key does not thereby reveal the corresponding decryption key, soriers or other secure means are not needed to transmit keys.

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article
Published
1978-02-01
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Keywords

Encryption, Computer science, Digital signature, Key (lock), Public-key cryptography

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