RSA cryptography is a data cryptography technique developed by RSA Data Security that leverages a public key system. The system itself relies on the complexity to factor very large prime numbers, even with humongous computational resources. On the other hand, with the public key-private key pair, the encryption/decryption process can be very fast.

RSA is the standard used to encrypt data with public keys, in particular with Internet.

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Lorenzo graduated in Telecommunication Engineering and works as freelance IT consultant, after a period of training as systems analyst. Currently he provides hardware solutions, virtualized infrastructures and websites.