The Webinar on How Do Prime Numbers Protect Our Information? took place on Thursday, August 18th, 2022 from 4 pm until 5 pm with Beatriz Londoño, leader of the Science and Technology For Everyone Initiative (SciTechXE), as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The speaker described the RSA algorithm called liked that because of Rivest, Shamir and Adleman, which is an algorithm of asymmetric encryption and public key. Beatriz Londoño then explained what modular arithmetic is, how the decomposition into prime factors works and what does Euclides’ algorithm state. The speaker also showed an example of how to encode, encrypt and decrypt messages assuming that our vocabulary is limited to 9 words.
