Sentences with phrase «rsa encryption algorithm»

Fifteen years ago, Peter Shor, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, predicted that quantum computers could beat even the most powerful supercomputers and crack the widely used RSA encryption algorithm.

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Meanwhile in Britain, a student at the University of Exeter has produced an version of a well - known encryption algorithm known by the acronym RSA.

And last year RSA Data Security, a cryptography company based in Redwood City, California, found that software which laid bare its RC4 encryption algorithm had been posted — via anonymous remailers — onto the Internet.