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Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Unleashed
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Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Unleashed

by Kevin Hoffman, Lonny Kruger
December 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
21h 40m
English
Sams
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Public Key Encryption and Signatures

Public key encryption involves the use of a key pair. That pair consists of a secure, private key, and a public key that can be made available to anyone. This type of encryption is called asymmetric because you don't use the same key to encrypt the data that you use to decrypt the data. Data that has been encrypted with the public key can be decrypted only by the private key, and data signed (encrypted) with the private key can be verified only by using the public key.

In a typical scenario, the public key is made available to anyone, and is used to encrypt data being sent to the owner of the private key. The other main difference between secret key (symmetric) and public key (asymmetric) encryption is that ...

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