public key cryptography (PKC)
Definition
Secure data transmission scheme used in pretty good privacy (PGP). Also called non-secret encryption, PKC is different from symmetric key cryptography where both sender and receiver have the same electronic key. Developed in 1976 by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman of the US.
public key cryptography (PKC) is in the Data Management, Communications, & Networks and Internet & World Wide Web subjects.
public key cryptography (PKC) appears in the definition of the following term: public key infrastructure (PKI)
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