Timeline for What are private key cryptography and public key cryptography, and where are they useful?
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| Jul 20, 2011 at 14:26 | comment | added | bethlakshmi | With one exception... PKI is, well, PKI - I know of none that calls it an Asymmetric Key Infrastructure. :) | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 14:20 | comment | added | AviD♦ | Hmm. Interesting, that. In any event, I agree with your last line, asymmetric/symmetric over public/private/secret etc... unless its important to the context. | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 14:04 | comment | added | bethlakshmi | Our experience is definitely different then. Granted, in the office we have bunches of terms running around about BOTH types of encryption based on other factors. But "private key" = "symmetric" IS a pretty standard term: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric-key_algorithm. Our thread here is one of the big reasons why I almost never use the term "private key" to describe an encryption type, I much prefer asymmetric/symmetric. | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 21:34 | comment | added | AviD♦ | overall a very good answer (as always, LMGTFY-question notwithstanding), one comment: to avoid ambiguousness, I've always heard that private key crypto is the same as public key crypto, as @Hendrik said. For symmetric encryption, it's usually called "Secret Key encryption", or "Shared key encryption"... | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 18:28 | history | answered | bethlakshmi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |