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An asymmetric cipher is an encryption scheme using a pair of keys, one to encrypt and a second to decrypt a message. This way the encrypting key need not be kept secret to ensure a private communication. Similarly in public key authentication, the verification key can be public and the signing key private.

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Clarification on hybrid encryption vs ECIES vs symmetric encrypt the message and then use as...

I am trying to understand Hybrid encryption. When I first came across the term I though it is used to describe a scheme where the message is encrypted using a symmetric key, and the symmetric key is t …
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Are all public key a result of computing g^k mod p

I just read through the text book definition of Diffie–Hellman key exchange. And from what i understand, the public key that is shared based on the protocol is calculated from: g^k mod p where g is a …
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Are Encryption, Key Exchanges and Digital Signature the application of asymmetric encryption

Reading the wikipedia entry on asymmetric cryptography, will I be wrong to conclude that there are 3 main broad category of application for asymmetric cryptography? Mainly: encryption digital signatu …
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