CS Fundamentals: How SSL Works

We take for granted that most of our communications online are secure and encrypted, which is actually a modern miracle! Cryptographers have been searching for an "unbreakable" cipher for millennia, and it wasn't until the advent of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and the RSA algorithm that this dream was made a reality. But how does it work? You will be surprised at just how simple it is!

In this session Rob Conery will walk you through these amazing discoveries, creating the RSA algorithm from scratch!