Open AccessNUMBER THEORY AND THEIR APPLICATION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CRYPTOGRAPHY
Author(s) -
Debjeet Banerjee,
Sagnik Dutta,
Souvik Bhattacharyya,
Sujan Sarkar,
Sneha Rakshit,
Raktim Chakraborty
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of mathematical sciences and computational mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2688-8300
pISSN - 2644-3368
DOI - 10.15864/jmscm.2106
Subject(s) - encryption , cryptography , computer science , theoretical computer science , computation , prime (order theory) , mathematics , computer security , algorithm , combinatorics
Here we have briefly discussed the various applications of number theory in the fields of Computation with special emphasis on Encryption algorithms. We have laid special emphasis on prime numbers and briefly touched upon their importance in modern day Cryptography , especially in RSA Encryption which is the most widely used encryption technique nowadays.