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- cryptography (deleted)
- public key cryptography
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symmetric-key encryption
n.A technique of using a single key for translating information into ciphertext and subsequently decoding the ciphertext back to plaintext.Notes
Symmetric-key encryption is distinguished from dual-key encryption, which uses different keys for encryption and decoding.-
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