Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Introduction
Last lecture we looked at public key encryption In public key encryption there are 2 types of keys a private key & a public key The private key is kept by the receiver The public key is announced by the receiver to anyone who wants it (e.g. the sender of the message or anyone else!) Thus there are no security issues associated with the distribution of keys When A wants to send a message to B, A encrypts the message using Bs public key B decrypts the message using their private key
1