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+# Procedure
+
+
+Example using 3 values:
+
+* p = 3 
+* q = 17
+* e = 15
+* m = 3
+
+There are a few components which must be calculated before we can safely determine a cipher text:
+
+`n = p * q` : note that `p` and `q` values should be primes in this case.
+
+`O(n) = (p - 1) * (q - 1)` is used later to verify that we have a value `d` which is the inverse of `e`. _We call this the quotient function_.
+
+
+## Encryption
+
+To produce a cipher text `C` we take `m` and raise it to the power of `e`(from earlier) then take the modulor of it by `n`:
+
+```
+C = (m^e) % n
+```
+
+`m` is the desired message to encrypt.
+
+The public and private keys are using the above cipher text functions whose unknown parameters are passed as follows
+
+`PublicKey(e, n)` 
+
+`PrivateKey(d, n)` 
+
+## Decryption
+
+The reverse of this is the following:
+
+```
+M = (c^d) % n
+```