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Public-key cryptosystems separate the capacities for encryption and decryption so that 1) many people can encrypt messages in such a way that only one person can read them, or 2) one person can encrypt messages in such a way that many people can read them. This separation allows important improvements in the management of cryptographic keys and makes it possible to ‘sign’ a purely digital message.
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Diffie, W. (1990). The Adolescence of Public-Key Cryptography. In: Quisquater, JJ., Vandewalle, J. (eds) Advances in Cryptology — EUROCRYPT ’89. EUROCRYPT 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 434. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46885-4_1
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