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Asymmetric Cryptography

A modern branch of cryptography (popularly known as "public- key cryptography") in which the algorithms employ a pair of keys (a public key and a private key) and use a different component of the pair for different steps of the algorithm.

TC/SC:	57	Terms Info Publications
Published in:	IEC 62351-2, ed. 1.0 (2008-08)	Terms Info
Reference number:	2.2.14
Source:	RFC 2828