public key cryptography (PKC)

  

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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.

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