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Glossary

ENPublic Key Cryptography 
1. The type of cryptography in which the encryption process is publicly available and unprotected, but in which a part of the decryption key is protected so that only a party with knowledge of both parts of the decryption process can decrypt the cipher text. Note: Commonly called non-secret encryption in professional cryptologic circles. FIREFLY is an application of public key cryptography.

2. [An] Encryption system using a linked pair of keys. What one pair of keys encrypts, the other pair decrypts.


TC/SC:57Terms     Info     Publications
Published in:IEC 62351-2, ed. 1.0 (2008-08) Terms     Info
Reference number:2.2.157
Source:ATIS

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