11 questions linked to/from How does asymmetric encryption work?
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### Why can't you decrypt an encrypted message with just the public key? [duplicate]

How does asymmetric crypto work? For example, if you use PGP in emails, you generate a private key that is known only to you and a public key, which is available to everyone. Is there a simple way to ...
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### How can public key not reverse encryption if the algorithm is known? [duplicate]

I've been reading about WhatsApp getting "end-to-end" encryption, and when reading about it, I've notice something. If I want to send a message from cell $A$ to cell $B$, since there's a public key, ...
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### Public key encryption [duplicate]

I am not getting whole idea behind Public Key Encryption technique. As according to fact, public key encryption method uses two keys a public key known to everyone private key known only to recipient ...
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### Can Alice encrypt a message to Bob without hiding anything from Eve? [duplicate]

I know that if Alice and Bob both have secret-public key pairs, they can use RSA for example. If we remove the possibility that Alice can know anything which Eve doesn't (ie Alice's secret key), is ...
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### How are primes generated for RSA?

As I understand it, the RSA algorithm is based on finding two large primes (p and q) and multiplying them. The security aspect is based on the fact that it's difficult to factor it back into p and q. ...
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### What is the relation between RSA & Fermat's little theorem?

I came across this while refreshing my cryptography brain cells. From the RSA algorithm I understand that it somehow depends on the fact that, given a large number (A) it is computationally ...
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### What place do prime numbers have in cryptography?

My understanding of hashing and encryption is rather limited. I certainly do not understand the mathematical formulas at play in these algorithms. With that said, what part do prime numbers play in ...
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### How can a message encrypted with the public key be decrypted with the private key?

I've been reading about encryption and have a basic understanding of the concept. What I don't understand, however, is how a calculation with one key can result in a number that, through calculation ...
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### Public Key encryption /Assymetric encryption

For a start, I 've got a question regarding the Public key encryption. I know the public key encryption overcomes the Key distribution issue with the symmetric encryption and that in the case of ...