On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 04:15:27PM -0600, Aaron Blosser wrote:
>Hmm...no kidding. Now, correct me if I'm wrong (I probably am) but aren't
>those types of encryption schemes based on multiplying large primes together
>to generate the "key", and the fact that it would take a VERY long time to
>factor the product means it's relatively secure?
That is only RSA, as far as I remember. Other, such as Diffie-Hellman (ElGamal)
uses a prime modulo, for instance.
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