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When Mallory Met Eve …

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

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Let’s have a bit of fun with an easy crypto cipher.

Mallory and Eve are being watched by Trent for all the messages they send. But before Trent started watched them, Mallory came up with a secret plan. “Let’s use RSA encryption”, he said. “And where we take the names of the leaders of the US, Germany, UK, France and Italy and then pick two of them, and create an encryption key. As it is RSA, we will generate a prime number…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.