Thursday, January 20, 2011

Private Key

A Private Key is a secret key, used in Asymmetric Encryption. It is mathematically equivalent to a Public Key, but is kept secret. This is one half of a matching key-pair.

1 comment:

  1. The figure that you have shared to explain the concept of private key is simply awesome. It gave me a complete idea about this term and explained the importance of private key in asymmetric encryption.
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