In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christina Lau Wai Ting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i would like to ask something on RSA. Whether the message is encrypted
>character by character, string by string or byte by byte?
RSA encrypts an entire message at once.
Usually, however, RSA is used to encrypt a session key for a conventional
(symmetric) algorithm, since symmetric algorithms tend to be much faster.
Most such algorithms encrypt messages 8 bytes at a time.
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