RSA Encryption Tutorial

February 22, 2014

https://github.com/ccorcos/rsa-tutorial

I've been interested in encryption lately and I came across the concept of asymmetric encryption which is way cool.

One such encryption scheme is RSA and it is widely used for SSL, SSH, and PGP. Wikipedia has a good explanation of how the algorithm works so I took the time to understand it and code up an implementation in python along with a tutorial explaining how it works. The code is available on my Github for you to check out.

Simply run this at the commandline.

$ git clone https://github.com/ccorcos/rsa-tutorial.git
$ cd rsa-tutorial
$ python rsa.py

Here's what the tutorial looks like.