Prime Number Encryption

Year 12 King's Certificate Project.

Authors: Andras Bard, Ataera Eyton, Karolina Nguyen, Calum Wong.

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Abstract

Prime number encryption is the backbone of modern society. Its applications encompass everything from banking and finance to web browsing and instant messaging. Our article provides an in-depth analysis of prime number encryption, exploring its origins and history and reflecting on its vulnerability to quantum algorithms in the future. We present our findings on the exciting world of prime number encryption in an easily digestible format, and we provide a programmatic implementation of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem in Python to demonstrate how data can be encrypted and decrypted using prime numbers, ensuring confidential communication between two parties.