What is the difference between DSA and RSA?

Question

It appears they are both encryption algorithms that require public and private keys. Why would I pick one versus the other to provide encryption in my client server application

Answer 1

And in addition to the above nice answers.

• DSA uses Discrete logarithm.
• RSA uses Integer Factorization.

RSA stands for Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman.