RSA Encryption Algorithm Explained 🔐: How It Secures Your Data

RSA is a Cryptographic Algorithm used for encrypting data over the network. It is a type of asymmetric key based algorithm that uses two key pairs. One is public key and the other one is the private key. Public key is generated for generally encrypting the message(There is the other way around too, known as Digital Signing) and Private key for decrypting the message.


For encrypting, the receiver has to send his public key to the sender so that only the receiver will be able to decrypt it using his/her private key.

It is highly secure and reliable due to large prime numbers and their multiplication. But also is difficult to maintain due to complex numbers generation and even loss of data.