C4 RSA and PKI in payments

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Lesson C4: Key pairs, signatures and certificates, and where payments use RSA: EMV, TR-34, TLS.

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The opening of the lesson

Symmetric keys need a shared secret first. Public-key cryptography solves the bootstrap problem:

RSA, with certificates organised in a PKI, is still the workhorse in payments.

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