Cryptography Basics
Fundamental cryptographic concepts.
The data
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- Term
- Symmetric Encryption
- Description
- Same key is used for encryption and decryption.
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- Term
- Asymmetric Encryption
- Description
- Public and private key pair used for encryption and signing.
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- Term
- Hash Function
- Description
- One-way function producing a fixed-size digest.
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- Term
- Digital Signature
- Description
- Uses a private key to sign and a public key to verify.
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- Term
- Public Key Infrastructure
- Description
- Framework for managing public-key certificates.
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- Term
- Block Cipher
- Description
- Encrypts fixed-length blocks of plaintext.
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- Term
- Stream Cipher
- Description
- Encrypts data one bit or byte at a time.
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