Types of Encryptio

Symmetric Keys

Symmetric key  cryptography (also called private key cryptography or secret key cryptography) is the classic use of keys that most people are familiar with: the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt the data

Asymmetric Keys

1. Alice uses one of the public key algorithms to generate a pair of encryption keys: a private key, which she keeps secret, and a public key. She also prepares a message to send to Bob.

2. Alice sends the public key to Bob, unencrypted. Because her private key cannot be deduced from the public key, doing so does not compromise her private key in any way.

3. Alice can now easily prove her identity to Bob (a process known as authentication). To do so, she encrypts her message (or any portion of the message) using her private key and sends it to Bob.

4. Bob decrypts the message with Alice’s public key. This proves the message must have come from Alice, as only she has the private key used to encrypt it.

5. Bob encrypts his message using Alice’s public key and sends it to Alice. The message is secure, because even if it is intercepted, no one but Alice has the private key needed to decrypt it.

6. Alice decrypts the message with her private key.