Sentences with phrase «on public key cryptography»

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Most sensitive web transactions are protected by public - key cryptography, a type of encryption that lets computers share information securely without first agreeing on a secret encryption key.

«The idea of mixnets has been around for a long time, but unfortunately it's always relied on public - key cryptography and on public - key techniques, and that's been expensive,» says Jonathan Katz, director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center and a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland.

No doubt, the debate rages on, but I argue further that since digital communication simply means an electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally, it is only appropriate to argue that a digital signature is one form of electronic signature produced by public key cryptography.

Public key cryptography and digital signatures are the foundation for most regularly used security protocols on the Internet...

The key innovation is a public blockchain that eliminates the need for a central counterparty to act as a third party to financial transactions, relying instead on a decentralised peer - to - peer network secured by advanced cryptography.

Blockchain also relies on public - private key cryptography to give individuals safe, exclusive control of their bitcoin.