The RSA algorithm works as follows: First, I find two huge (at least 100 digits each!) prime numbers p and q, and then I multiply them together to get the even bigger number N.

Security firm RSA publicly released its encryption algorithm Wednesday, allowing any company to freely develop solutions based on its prevalent technology. The algorithm is used by both Netscape ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have announced that they have found a major weakness in the popular RSA encryption algorithm.

Within five years the math for cracking encryption algorithms could become so efficient that it may render today's commonly used RSA public key cryptography algorithm obsolete, Black Hat attendees ...

If the RSA algorithm–or any other cryptosystem–is implemented poorly, then the result can be keys that don’t have enough randomness to withstand brute-force cracking attempts, or keys that ...

RSA says researchers' results don't indicate a fundamental flaw in the RSA algorithm but more likely a problem with implementing it After having its flagship RSA crypto system called flawed this ...

To an outsider, the RSA algorithm appears like a card trick: You pick a card from a stack, hide it (this is like encryption), and after some manipulations the magician produces your card—bazinga!

RSA is firing back at researchers who claim in a paper that its flagship crypto system is damaged goods. But the report is still difficult to dismiss.

Security company RSA was paid $10 million to use the flawed Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm as the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library, according to sources ...