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- From: tsa@cellar.org (The Silent Assassin)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: RSA questions
- Message-ID: <9cTsVB4w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 00:47:07 GMT
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- I read the article in popular mechanics and have a few questions about how
- RSA works. You take the ASCII value of the number, raise it to an arbitrary
- high power, and mod it by the public key, correct? But how do you decrypt
- it?
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- I finally discovered, at the age of 21, what all of my friends had found out
- at 12 or 13-that your parents are just as fucked-up and wierd as everyone
- else. Politically Correct: Socially, Politcally, and Environmentally
- concious to the point of nausea. tsa%cellar@tredysvr.tredydev.unisys.com
-