Patent ID: 8442219
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-based system for establishing encrypted messages comprising: at least one computing device having a hardware processor to perform cryptographic operations including generating at least one public key for use in encrypting and/or decrypting messages; wherein the messages include electronic forms of information, documents, files, data, or any combination thereof; wherein the public key includes a predetermined number of prime factors used for the generation of a modulus N and an exponent e; wherein the modulus N is not a squareful number and is the product of the unraised prime factors alone; wherein a proper subset of the prime factors of the modulus N composed of less than all of the distinct prime factors, along with the exponent e, are required to decrypt messages that are encrypted by the hardware processor using the public exponent e and the public modulus N; wherein e and N are calculated by the hardware processor using RSA methods; and wherein encryption using the private key occurs using RSA methods.