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9 years ago
As an encryption system, what is unique about public-key encryption (that is, why is public-key encryption so named)?

This is for my computing programming course
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9 years ago
In a public-key encryption system, knowing the encryption key does not allow one to decipher a message. Thus, the encryption key can be public knowledge without violating security.
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