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SECRET KEY ALGORITHM
Do You want to share your personnel or business secrets with the whole world?
If not you need some protection against publishing your secrets! There are a lot of interesting kinds to protect them.
cryptographic message syntax for "S/MIME" (Secure Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions), RSA's proposed standard for secure e-mail. The standards were developed by RSA Laboratories in cooperation with a consortium that included Apple, Microsoft, DEC, Lotus, Sun, and MIT.
Definition of a general key
In cryptography, a key is a variable value that is applied using an algorithm to a string or block of unencrypted text to produce encrypted text or to decrypt encrypted text. The length of the key is a factor in considering how difficult it will be to decrypt the text in a given message.
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure enables users of a basically not secure public network such as the Internet to securely and privately exchange data and money. This is possible through the use of a public and a private cryptographic key pair that is obtained and shared through a trusted authority.
Private key
A private or secret key is an encryption/decryption key known only to the party or parties that exchange secret messages...