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What is one of the most common applications of Fermat's Little Theorem in cryptography?
Generating public key and private key pairs
In a public-key cryptography system, what is the role of the public key?
Widely known and can be used to encrypt a message
What is the user's private key in a public-key cryptography system?
The modular multiplicative inverse of a modulo n
How is the user's public key generated in a public-key cryptography system?
By computing the product of two large prime numbers
What is the congruence relation between aaa and bbb in the public-key cryptography system?
aaa multiplied by bbb is equal to 1 modulo n
Test your knowledge of Fermat’s Little Theorem and its applications in cryptography. Explore how the theorem is used in the creation of secure public-key cryptography systems for transmitting messages over networks.
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