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RSA Encryption: How It Works and Why It Matters
RSA is a public-key cryptosystem that secures digital communication through the mathematical difficulty of factoring large numbers. Invented in 1977 by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman, it underpins modern internet security through encryption and digital signatures.