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Public-Key Cryptography

6 questions · ~5 min · intermediate

Six questions on the actual mechanics of public-key cryptography: key distribution, RSA's hard problem, why elliptic curves shrink key size, what forward secrecy really comes from, how ECDSA fails, and why hybrid encryption is the normal design.

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What long-standing operational problem is public-key cryptography mainly solving for internet protocols?

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