The large number "RSA129" posed a challenge experts said would take 40 quadrillion years to solve but took 17.
Featuring Ron Rivest, coinventor of RSA... More links below...

Our original RSA video (how it all works):    • Encryption and HUGE numbers  Numberp...  

More from Ron from this interview (quantum computing):    • Quantum Computing and Other Extras (w...  

More Ron Rivest on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/RonRivest

Ron Rivest's own website: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/

Public Key Cryptography on our sister channel, Computerphile:    • Public Key Cryptography  Computerphile  

RSA129: 114381625757888867669235779976146612010218296721242362562561842935706935245733897830597123563958705058989075147599290026879543541


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