It also integrates seamlessly with users» contacts, and acts as verification point while using
encrypted keys to lock down communications between two parties, giving an added assurance to traders that they are corresponding with people verified in their various networks.
Not exact matches
These two
keys are related: the public
key encrypts content such that it can only be decrypted by a private
key;
to analogize them
to a safe, the public
key locks the door, and the private
key unlocks it.
The relationship between these two
keys is, well, the
key to understanding how encryption works in messaging (and all communications): anyone sending an
encrypted message «
locks» the content using a public
key, which means that the only person that can «unlock» and read the message is whoever has the corresponding private
key.
Binghamton researchers
encrypted patient data using a person's unique electrocardiograph (ECG)-- a measurement of the electrical activity of the heart measured by a biosensor attached
to the skin — as the
key to lock and unlock the files.
In particular, the
keys required
to lock and unlock
encrypted information were difficult
to manage and safeguard against potential hackers.
For instance, the Secure Enclave itself is generated during the phone's construction with a unique ID (UID) unknown both
to Apple and other parts of the software stack; that is mixed with an ephemeral
key created when the iPhone boots, and the result used
to encrypt the memory used for the
locked - down space.