eli5 about how rsa algorithm works in cryptography.
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It’s like if you gave everyone a free lock (public key) that only you had the combination for (private key). Anyone could put this lock on their package when they send it to you, but they wouldn’t know the combination. The only way for them to figure out the combination would be to try many possible combinations and see if they work. But since you made the lock you make it with such a huge number of combinations that it would take millions of years to try them all.
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