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public key encryption
A method of encryption that uses a pair of mathematically related keys: a public key and a corresponding private key. Either key can be used to encrypt data, but the corresponding key must be used to decrypt it.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Computer
- Category: Operating systems
- Company: Microsoft
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