Public Key

Public Key definition - hacker
Public key cryptography uses two mathematical keys that are related. A message encrypted by one key can only be decrypted by the other related key. This notion contrasts with traditional cryptography, now called symmetric cryptography, which uses the same key for encryption as for decryption.

See Also: Cryptography or “Crypto”; Decryption or Decipher; Encryption or Encipher; Key.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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