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A Look at Public Key Encryption
Title: A Look at Public Key Encryption
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1234 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Look at Public Key Encryption
A Look at Public Key Encryption
Encryption is the process of disguising information by transforming plain text into gibberish, or ciphertext, which cannot be understood by an unauthorized person. Decryption is the process of transforming ciphertext back into plaintext that can
be read by anyone. Example of encryption can be found in history,
for example in the era of the Cold War, the Solviet Union and the
United States would send electronic messages to one …showed first 75 words of 1234 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1234 total…credit card
numbers. When someone purchases something from a store on-line
there card is encrypted by the browser using the stores public
key, and then sent to the store in ciphertext, the store receives
the it and then decodes with there private key. With the age of
digital communication expanding everyday the use of public key
will become part of our lives just as using an envelope has
become yesterday's way of encrypting a letter.
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