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Public Key
  • In public key encryption, a key that is given to other people without secrecy.
  • Type of cryptography in which the cryptography encryption process is publicly available and unprotected, but in which a part of the decryption key is protected so that only a party with knowledge of both parts of the decryption process can decrypt the cipher text. NOTE: Commonly called non-secret encryption in professional cryptologic circles. FIREFLY is an application of public key cryptography.