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Oct 8, 2026 9 min

Public Key Cryptography - Computerphile

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Spies used to meet in the park to exchange code words, now things have moved on - Robert Miles explains the principle of Public/Private Key Cryptographynote1: Yes, it should have been 'Obi Wan' not 'Obi One' :)note2: The string of 'garbage' text in the two examples should have been different to illustrate more clearly that there are two different systems in use.http://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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