RSA

algorithm for public-key cryptography
Product cryptosystem Q181551
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RSA

Summary

RSA is a cryptosystem[1]. RSA draws 4,791 Wikipedia views per month (cryptosystem category, ranking #1 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • RSA's instance of is recorded as cryptosystem[3].
  • Ron Rivest is named after RSA[4].
  • Adi Shamir is named after RSA[5].
  • Leonard Adleman is named after RSA[6].
  • RSA is a type of public-key cryptography[7].
  • 1977 marks the founding of RSA[8].
  • RSA's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/rsa[9].
  • RSA's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://crypto.stackexchange.com/tags/rsa[10].
  • RSA's used by is recorded as Transport Layer Security, version 1.3[11].
  • RSA's different from is recorded as RSA[12].
  • RSA's uses is recorded as integer factorization[13].
  • RSA's uses is recorded as modular exponentiation[14].
  • RSA's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[15].

Why It Matters

RSA draws 4,791 Wikipedia views per month (cryptosystem category, ranking #1 of 9).[2] RSA has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] RSA is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . siam.org. Retrieved . siam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . RFC 8446: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · Simone Biancolilla · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by
    Instance of cryptosystem
    Publication date +1977-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Inception
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P577]]: 1977"
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