Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is a cryptographic system that uses pairs of keys.Each pair consists of a public key (which may be known to others) and a private key (which may not be known by anyone except the owner). The generation of such key pairs depends on cryptographic algorithms which are based on mathematical problems termed one-way …

Cryptography, or cryptology (from Ancient Greek: κρυπτός, romanized: kryptós "hidden, secret"; and γράφειν graphein, "to write", or -λογία-logia, "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. More generally, cryptography is about constructing and analyzing protocols that prevent third ...

Die Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), deutsch Standards für asymmetrische Kryptographie, bezeichnen eine Sammlung von Spezifikationen für asymmetrische Kryptosysteme.Diese Standards wurden von RSA Security zusammen mit anderen ab 1991 entwickelt, um die Verbreitung asymmetrischer Kryptosysteme zu beschleunigen. Einige der …