March 19, 2010

symmetric encryption

Last modified: Monday, January 05, 2004 

A type of encryption where the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt the message. This differs from asymmetric (or public-key) encryption, which uses one key to encrypt a message and another to decrypt the message.

 
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