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Thanks. I found some great answers in this Math.SE question: http://math.stackexchange.com/q/540/6831 http://math.stackexchange.com/q/540/6831

• arethuza 16y ago
  You might want to have a look at RSA encryption - which is the most commonly used asymmetric encryption algorithm, it is built around some properties of prime numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA