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=== Asymmetric cryptography === [[Asymmetric cryptography]] has separate keys for encrypting and decrypting.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Asymmetric-Key Cryptography|url=https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs5430/2013sp/TL04.asymmetric.html|access-date=2021-04-02|website=www.cs.cornell.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Chandra|first1=S.|last2=Paira|first2=S.|last3=Alam|first3=S. S.|last4=Sanyal|first4=G.|title=2014 International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Computational Engineering (ICECCE) |chapter=A comparative survey of Symmetric and Asymmetric Key Cryptography |date=2014|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7086640|pages=83β93|doi=10.1109/ICECCE.2014.7086640|isbn=978-1-4799-5748-4 |s2cid=377667 }}</ref> These keys are known as the public and private keys, respectively.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Kumar|first1=M. G. V.|last2=Ragupathy|first2=U. S.|title=2016 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET) |chapter=A Survey on current key issues and status in cryptography |date=March 2016|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7566121|pages=205β210|doi=10.1109/WiSPNET.2016.7566121|isbn=978-1-4673-9338-6 |s2cid=14794991 }}</ref>
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