[attach id="634803" size="medium" align="right"]The 2,160-bit public key, in hexadecimal, of a local website that employs the RSA algorithm to encrypt its data. As ...

Prime numbers are positive integers greater than 1 that can only be divided evenly by 1 and themselves. These numbers are important in many areas of mathematics, including number theory, cryptography, ...

Prime numbers are all the rage these days. I can tell something’s up when random people start asking me about the randomness of primes—without even knowing that I’m a mathematician! In the past couple ...