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RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem that is widely used for secure data transmission. It is also one of the oldest. The acronym "RSA" comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described the algorithm in 1977.An equivalent system was developed secretly in 1973 at GCHQ (the British signals intelligence agency) by the English. The recommended length of RSA keys is a minimum of 2048-bit. RSA is widely used, some examples are SSL, HTTPS, Digital certificates, and Digital Signature. Because the key must be big enough to avoid the code to be broken, the encryption process is slow. Therefore, its use is not recommended to encrypt big amounts of data. RSA encryption usually is only used for messages that fit into one block. A 1024-bit RSA key invocation can encrypt a message up to 117 bytes, and results in a 128-byte value. A 2048-bit RSA key invocation can encrypt a message up to 245 bytes. RSA, as defined by PKCS#1, encrypts "messages" of limited size,the maximum size of data which can be.