An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography - Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher, J.H. Silverman - Google Books

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ThecreationofpublickeycryptographybyDi?eandHellmanin1976andthe subsequent invention of the RSA public key cryptosystem by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman in 1978 are watershed events in the long history of secret c- munications. It is hard to overestimate the…