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one-key cryptosystem
cryptology
Also known as: symmetric cryptosystem, symmetric encryption
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comparison with public-key cryptography
- In public-key cryptography
Single-key cryptography is called symmetric for obvious reasons. A cryptosystem satisfying conditions 1–4 above is called asymmetric for equally obvious reasons. There are symmetric cryptosystems in which the encryption and decryption keys are not the same—for example, matrix transforms of the text in which one key is a nonsingular…
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- In data encryption
Conventional symmetric encryption requires the same key for both encryption and decryption. A common symmetric encryption system is the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), an extremely complex algorithm approved as a standard by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Asymmetric encryption, or public-key cryptography, requires…
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