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Public-Key Cryptography (Asymmetric Cryptography)

Public-Key Cryptography is a Cryptography method where different keys are used for Encryption and Decryption. This is a major advantage over Secret-Key Cryptography and makes Public-Key Cryptography ideally suited for scenarios where secure key exchange is hard or impossible. The disadvantage of Public-Key Cryptography is that all known Algorithms are very computing-intensive.

Type Associations

Topic(s) from which this Topic is derived:
- Cryptography
Topic(s) derived from this Topic:
- ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography)
- RSA (Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman)

Associations

Public-Key Cryptography is used as a base by
- MOSS
Public-Key Cryptography implements
- Decryption · Encryption

Mentioned in...

DES · MD2 · MD4 · MD5 · MOSS · PKCS · RSA · SET · Secret-Key Cryptography · X.509

Bibliographic References

Simon Singh: The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography [1]

Additional Information

Topic Creation: 2000-06-18, Modification Date: 2002-07-16; HTML Creation: 2012-01-22, 07:00:09
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