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title: Theoretical and applied encryption
lanyrd_url: http://lanyrd.com/2014/seagl/sdfgdd/
beginning: 2014-10-25T11:00-07:00
end: 2014-10-25T11:50-07:00
resources:
  youtube_id: xaB6ZiC_dkI
presenters:
- name: Jeff Silverman
  lanyrd_url: http://lanyrd.com/profile/jeff-silverman/
---

First, I am going to discuss the underlying mathematics of public key cryptosystems. I have the source code for a program, rsa.py, that implements the RSA algorithm. Finally, I go through the process of generating public and private keys using openssl
