Cryptography and Cryptanalysis in Java: Creating and Programming Advanced Algorithms with Java SE 17 LTS and Jakarta EE 10

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S. L. Nita, M. I. MihailescuCryptography and Cryptanalysis in Javahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8105-5_10

10. Asymmetric Encryption Schemes

Stefania Loredana Nita¹   and Marius Iulian Mihailescu¹

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Bucharest, Romania

 

Another name for asymmetric encryption is public-key cryptography (PKC). This name comes from the fact that the cryptosystems in this category are using a pair of keys in their algorithms. Specifically, a public key is used by the encryption algorithm, and a private (secret) key is used by the decryption algorithm. In classical cryptography, the purpose of each type of key is well established, but in modern cryptography, these types of keys ...