README.md

RSA_Simulation

This is aimed at providing basic knowledge of how the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) works to both encrypt and decrypt the plaintext.

What is RSA?

To learn more about RSA, click here.

## Background As a part of my Extended Essay, I chose to study the RSA algorithm and outline notiable limitations in terms of key sizes. Along the way of my experimental section, I wrote this Python code to provide more realistic and interesting proofs to my readers about how the length of key sizes affects the efficacy of the algorithm. 

Mechanism

The program gets the following input values: the length of keys that are randomly generated and the text to encrypt into a ciphertext. Additionally, the times spent to complete the tasks are printed at the end of the execution.

Important

Command to Execute

python3 RSA.py

Note

Thank you!!!