Implementation of Grid Computing for Cryptosystem (RSA)

RSA cipher is of the asymmetric encryption technique that is widely used today over the internet and a large network environment. The RSA algorithm can be used for both public key encryption and digital signatures. Its security isbased on the difficulty of factoring large integers. Current industry practice is use larger bits as example 512 bit encryption which is computationally intensive as it requires a large memory size and bigger processor speed to achieve relatively speed on time taken to cipher or encrypt data. However, withthe emerging of grid computing architecture, it is believe that processing time to process RSA algorithm can be reduce as it use more resource together with a parallel computing element. One objective ofthis project is to perform a small scale study in order to set up a grid computing that can support faster computation ofRSA Algorithm. Apart from that, the other objective is to implement a suitable grid computing architecture that is able to support parallel processing. Lastly the project has the objective to deploy and a grid computing facility that will beuse as a test bed for RSA algorithm Methodology used for the development is Rapid Application Development (RAD) as it will allow for fast development with a series of testing and prototyping. i