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public key

n.
One of two keys used in public key cryptography, made publicly available by the recipient of encrypted data and typically used to encrypt data and to verify digital signatures.
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clé publique
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"The keys will be used for asymmetric encryption: once the private key is utilized by the customer, along with a fingerprint or a PIN, the public key safely stored in our servers will be used to validate her or his identity.
The ROP on Wednesday said that the eVisa system will use a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) feature for applications in the sponsored visa category.
5 June 2019 - US-based digital identity and public key enablement specialists CertiPath and Zeva have jointly acquired life science digital identity and cryptography standards provider Safe-BioPharma, the companies said.
Each test is done in a non-deterministic way to check whether the verification works correctly with a valid public key of the application or a fake key generated for the test.
As such in [18], the public key generated with high complexity is unpractical to be implemented in any practical system [21].
Secure Chorus and ISARA Corporation have announced a joint white paper on security issues raised by quantum computing and Introduces quantum-safe equivalents to replace current public key cryptosystems.
Additionally, NuCypher's technology, called proxy re-encryption, is a type of public-key encryption that allows a third-party proxy to transform ciphertexts from one public key to another (using re-encryption keys) without learning anything about the underlying message.
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