COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
CRYPTOGRAPHY AND ENCRYPTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Asymmetric encryption is also called public key encryption, but it actually relies on a key pair. Two mathematically related keys, one called the public key and another called the private key, are generated to be used together.
Detailed explanation-2: -Information encrypted using the public key can be decrypted only with the private key. Information can be encrypted by any user, and sent securely to the holder of the private key: data encrypted with the public key is readable by only the holder of the private key.
Detailed explanation-3: -Asymmetric encryption, also known as public key encryption, uses a public key-private key pairing: data encrypted with the public key can only be decrypted with the private key. TLS (or SSL), the protocol that makes HTTPS possible, relies partially on asymmetric encryption.
Detailed explanation-4: -The correct response is true. Asymmetric keys use two separate keys, one key to encrypt and one key to decrypt information. These are known as public and private key pairs.