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Also known as public key [Cryptography], public key encrypton was introduced by Diffie and Hellman in 1976, and popularised by the [RSA] algorithm two years later.
Each person has a pair of keys, called the PublicKey and the PrivateKey. Each person's public key is published while the private key is kept secret. Data can be encrypted using the intended recipient's public key and then can only be decrypted using their private key.
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See also PublicKeyAuthentication.
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