IBM Hyper Protect Platform: Applying Data Protection and Confidentiality in a Hybrid Cloud Environment

Encryption keys explained

Key generation is the process of creating encryption keys that can be used to encrypt and decrypt sensitive data that needs to be protected from unauthorized access. The kind of keys that need to be generated depends on the algorithm used for encryption. Symmetric-key algorithms, such as AES, use a single key for encryption and decryption. Asymmetric- or Public-Key algorithms, such as ECC, use a public-key to encrypt and the corresponding private-key to decrypt. The keys can be used to generate and verify signatures over ...