HTW Berlin Medieninformatik

HTW Berlin
Fachbereich 4
Internationaler Studiengang
Internationale Medieninformatik (Bachelor)
Aktuelle Themen: Cryptography
Winter Term 2013/14

Lab 14: Roll your own RSA


  1. It's published. The patent has run out. You have all the tools. set up your own RSA encoder and decoder.
  2. How will you organize the keys, can you use the published PGP keys at all? If so, do so. If not - how will you exchange your public keys in the group?
  3. Write a final message for each person in this course and publish it in the Secret Messages forum, encoded with their public keys.
  4. Decode their messages to you with your secret key.


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