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An asymmetric (e.g. public-key) cryptosystem, based on modular exponentiation with big exponents and modulus. RSA can be used both for signature and encryption with proper paddings.

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What is the likely cause the RSA algorithm gives back plain text in this case?

Suppose the public key is $n=p.q$ Probably the order of random encryption key $e$ relative to $(p-1)(q-1)$ is so small so that a small power of $e$ gives something congruent to $1 \bmod (p-1)(q-1)$. …
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