Big Integers and Testing For Primes
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4 min readDec 25, 2023
Your online security is fundamentally dependent on a special type of number: a prime number. Every time you connect to the Internet, there is a computation that is normally done that allows a symmetric key to be created between you and a Web site and which involves:
V = calc (mod p)
and where p is a prime number. Along with this, we must verify a remote Web site with its…