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Describe the concept of public and private key with your own words. the concept of public and private keys is that public keys allows you to share data with other people and encrypt that data being sent. The private key is used to decrypt the information that was encrypted with the use of your public key as well.
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What 2 use-cases can public key cryptography be used for? The two use cases are…
- Encryption- a sender can combine the public key of the receiver of the message, encrypt it across a public network.
- Digital Signatures- this allows the receiver of a message to verify the sender of a message.