Public Key Asymmetric Cryptographic Algorithm

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A cryptographic algorithm that uses two related keys, a public key and a private key. The two keys have the property that deriving the private key from the public key is computationally infeasible.

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plural: Public Key Asymmetric Cryptographic Algorithms
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