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This chapter presents an asymmetric approach to cryptography – it uses different keys for encryption and decryption. The key for encryption is announced publically so that everybody can encode a message. Only the owner of the matching secret key can decode the encrypted message. Most cryptographic schemes used today in the Internet are based on asymmetric algorithms using a secret and a public key.
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Bongartz, D., Unger, W. (2011). Public-Key Cryptography. In: Vöcking, B., et al. Algorithms Unplugged. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15328-0_16
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