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What is RSA, and where is it used?

Tests whether you know RSA is asymmetric encryption built on the difficulty of factoring large primes, and can name its real uses -- JWT RS256 signing, TLS key exchange, digital signatures -- rather than confusing it with symmetric ciphers like AES.

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