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Think about any of the cryptosystems presented in Chapter 1, or any other similar systems. There will be no difficulties in the decryption process for a cryptanalyst who has learned the encryption method. The encryption and decryption keys coincide even in such a sophisticated system as DES. So you give away your secrets if you work with one of the systems mentioned and publicize your encryption method.
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Salomaa, A. (1996). The Idea of Public Keys. In: Public-Key Cryptography. Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03269-5_2
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