March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 12m
English
With asymmetric cryptography, often referred to as public key cryptography, a key pair is employed that consists of both a public key and a private key. A message encrypted with the public key of a pair can only be decrypted with the corresponding private key. Conversely, a message encrypted with the private key can only be decrypted with the corresponding public key. For this reason, it may be clearer to visualize public and private keys as each playing the role of both a key and a lock, such as shown in Figure 18.2.

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