2008-11-13 ontology for the RSA public private keys unstable The union of the public and private components of an RSAKey. Usually those pieces are not kept together unstable A Private Key in the RSA framework unstable The RSA public key. Padded message m are encrypted by applying the function modulus(power(m,exponent),modulus) unstable The modulus of an RSA public and private key. This is defined as n = p*q unstable The exponent used to decrypt the message calculated as public_exponent*private_exponent = 1 modulo totient(p*q) The private exponent is often named 'd' unstable The exponent used to encrypt the message. Number chosen between 1 and the totient(p*q). Often named 'e' . unstable