(The initials of the authors) 1. RSA Data Security, Inc. 2. TheIRcryptography systems, especially RSA encryption. The RSA algorithm was fIRst described in the paper: [R. Rivest, A. ShamIR, L. Adleman, "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key Cryptosystems". CACM 21,2 1978] (1995-03-21)