Public Key Cryptography Standards

(1) A public key cryptosystem developed by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman (RSA). The RSA has two different keys: the public encryption key and the secret decryption key. The strength of RSA depends on the difficulty of the prime number factorization. For applications with highlevel security, the number of the decryption key bits should be greater than 512 bits. RSA is used for both encryption and digital signatures. (2) Resource utilization, resource allocation. See Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman (RSA).
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Pretty Good Privacy. Public key cryptography software based on the RSA cryptographic method.
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Algorithms applied to data that are designed to ensure confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and/or nonrepudiation. Art or science concerning the principles, means, and methods for rendering plain information unintelligible and for restoring encrypted information to intelligible form. The study of mathematical techniques related to aspects of information security such as confidentiality, data integrity, entity authentication, and data origin authentication. Cryptography is not the only means of providing information security services, but rather one set of techniques. The word itself comes from the Greek word kryptos, which means “hidden” or “covered. ” Cryptography is a way to hide writing but yet retain a way to uncover it again.
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A security protocol for the transmission of transactions over the Internet. SET is based on RSA encryption and DES. SET had the support of major credit card companies, such as Visa and MasterCard. However, it has mostly been abandoned in light of newer and more secure alternatives. The SET specification has been developed to allow for secure credit card and offline debit card (check card) transactions over the World Wide Web.
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A public key encryption algorithm named after Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman, its inventors.
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