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https://mathematicator.com/ In today's episode, we will talk to Associate Professor Mirko Rokyta about the RSA encryption method. The mathematics on which the RSA method is based was invented more than 200 years ago by one of the greatest mathematicians in history, Leonhard Euler. 00:00:00 Introduction and the principle of encryption 00:31:50 Modular arithmetic 00:55:29 Fermat's Little Theorem 01:06:00 Euler's generalization of Fermat's Little Theorem and its application to encryption 01:19:50 Encryption example 01:35:19 Conclusion