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What is the purpose of using Fermat's Little Theorem in public-key cryptography systems?
What is the purpose of using Fermat's Little Theorem in public-key cryptography systems?
- To encrypt messages
- To generate private keys
- To decrypt messages
- To perform modular exponentiation efficiently (correct)
What is the private key in a public-key cryptography system?
What is the private key in a public-key cryptography system?
- A key that is used to convert a message into a number
- A key that is used to compute the encrypted message
- A key that is known only to the user and is used to decrypt messages (correct)
- A key that is widely known and can be used by anyone to encrypt a message
How is the user's public key generated in a public-key cryptography system?
How is the user's public key generated in a public-key cryptography system?
- By choosing two large prime numbers and adding them together
- By choosing two large composite numbers and computing their product
- By choosing two large prime numbers and computing their product (correct)
- By choosing any two integers
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