The Day I “Got” Public Key Encryption … Here’s The Mod Root
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3 min readDec 11, 2022
The day that I really got public key cryptography was when I realised why we used prime numbers and the modulus operation. Basically, we could perform any maths operation we wanted, and could then reverse it. So we could add:
c = a + b (mod p)
and which has the same result as:
