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It was only recently that public key cryptography developed into a precise mathematical subject, mainly as a response to the growing need for secure transmission of information via the electronic media. The main new idea was to base the security of cryptosystems on the intractability of number theory problems.
Secret de deux, secret de Dieu, secret de trois, secret de tous.
(French Proverb)
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Kranakis, E. (1986). Public Key Cryptosystems. In: Primality and Cryptography. Wiley-Teubner Series in Computer Science. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-96647-6_5
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