ocr: TOPSECRET George Sassoon explores the code of public-key cryptography. A few years ago, there were curious is that the key comes in two parts: the avoids this difficulty: the encryption key happenings at a meeting of a learned encryption key, which is made public, could be published in the Moscow mathematical society. Armed security enabling anybody to encipher messages, telephone directory without compromis- men burst into the lecture hall; fist-fights and the decryption key, which is kept ing the system! broke out around the podium; equations secret, enabling only the originator of the The s ...
