the patent was issued, terms of patent were 17 years. The patent was about to expire on 21 September 2000, but RSA Security released the algorithm to the public domain on 6 September 2000.

Operation

The RSA algorithm involves four steps: key generation, key distribution, public-key operation (used for encryption or verifying a signature), and private key operation (used for decryption or signing a message).

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