2017-02-02

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The large number "RSA-129" posed a challenge experts said would take 40 quadrillion years to solve - but took 17.

Featuring Ron Rivest, co-inventor of RSA... More links below...

Our original RSA video (how it all works): /youtube/video/M7kEpw1tn50

More from Ron from this interview (quantum computing): /youtube/video/tX7e7CgWrvM

More Ron Rivest on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/RonRivest

Ron Rivest's own website: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/

Public Key Cryptography on our sister channel, Computerphile: https://youtu.be/GSIDS_lvRv4

RSA-129: 114381625757888867669235779976146612010218296721242362562561842935706935245733897830597123563958705058989075147599290026879543541

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