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bigstuffedcat
@bigstuffedcat

Why did they call it "RSA encryption" when "two factor authentication" was right there


bigstuffedcat
@bigstuffedcat

my wife, reading this post: "what's RSA encryption?"

me: "it's an encryption system underpinned by the fact that it's hard to find the nontrivial factors of a large semiprime, but easy to check whether two primes multiply to a number"

her: "what do you mean?"

me: "ok, take 91..."

(ten minutes of explanation later)

me: right? because with encryption, you need--

her: FUCK. "two factor". i just got the joke.


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