Timeline for Why is a public key insufficient to decrypt a message?
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| Apr 13, 2020 at 6:02 | answer | added | hedgehog | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 13, 2020 at 2:22 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes♦ | The whole idea of public / private keys is that the operation with the public key requires the private key to reverse it. The technicalities (the mathematical problem) that public / private schemes rely on depends on the algorithm. There is the RSA problem, the DL problem etc. For RSA, it contains the private exponent (and / or the CRT parameters required to calculate the private exponent). | |
| Apr 13, 2020 at 0:58 | answer | added | mentallurg | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 13, 2020 at 0:10 | comment | added | kelalaka | Start from here Explaining RSA to non-scientists | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 23:52 | comment | added | Conrado | It's hard to give a generic answer. I suggest you read about how RSA encryption works, there's a lot of material about it on the internet. | |
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| Apr 12, 2020 at 23:34 | history | asked | SquarerootSquirrel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |