Google said that its customers can now use their own
encryption keys to lock down files in Google's cloud storage service.
Not exact matches
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.
When power is cut
to the drive, it automatically
locks back up and can not be unlocked without the password, from which the
encryption key is partially generated.
I have switched
to Amazon until this policy changes, Amazon allows me
to use MY
encryption key through Adobe so that I OWN my content and do not have
to be trapped with vendor
lock - in
to content that I have purchased.
Apple says that it, not its Chinese partner, will be in possession of the
encryption keys, and as Reuters noted, authorities and Apple itself remain unable
to access data
locked locally on an iPhone.
On the other hand, 98 % of the funds presented
to Coinbase are
locked in cold storage using multi-sig
keys and
encryptions.
In the
encryption system, if the public
key is the
lock key, a user can use the
key to send private, secure or closed message.