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RSA   (English)

Definition (keystage 2)

An abbreviation for Rivest, Shamir and Adleman. The RSA algorithm, invented in 1978 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, is a very widely used way of encoding data.

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