This chapter is concerned with what can be termed modern cryptography or asymmetric cryptography. In Chapter 3, we studied symmetric encryption and surmised that it has a significant scalability problem when the encryption key has to be distributed to a large number of recipients. For example, consider the scenario where an encryption key has to be distributed to thousands of recipients. Each transmission of the key to a recipient carries with it, a certain probability that the key will be intercepted by a malevolent actor. The aim of public ...
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K. S. GarewalPractical Blockchains and Cryptocurrencieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5893-4_55. The Alchemy of Public Key Cryptosystems
Karan Singh Garewal1
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