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So What Are RSA PKCS#1.5, RSA OAEP and RSA PSS — And Why Is It Important To Pick The Right One?

So, let’s get the acronyms out of the way. With PKCS, we have Public-Key Cryptography Standards, and which are standards that were defined by RSA Labs. With PSS, we have Probabilistic Signature Scheme, and OAEP is Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding. And, if you don’t know what RSA stands for, you should probably not be…