Why does my SSH private key still work after changing some bytes? (2016)
What I find interesting about RSA is how it became so popular and important in our daily life, yet it uses basic math from hundred or thousands of years back.<p>It uses the Fermat's little theorem of prime numbers, which was defined in 1640 then proved by Euler almost 100 years after that.<p>Plus uses the Chinese reminder theorem that was discovered in the 300 CE<p>What is more crazy is that RSA (or something comparable to that) was discovered in parallel also by another mathematician working for a government agency 4 years prior to the RSA algo