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Digital certificates with public key infrastructure (PKI)

Digital certificates with public key infrastructure (PKI)

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Digital certificates with public key infrastructure (PKI)

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- One of the big challenges to using asymmetric encryption is the fact that, well, if you're going to do asymmetric encryption, you're going to generate a public, public keys will be red this time, and a private key. So you're going to generate this key pair. Now, in this particular example, let's say that I am a web server and I own a company called Total Seminars, and the website is www.totalsem.com, and I want people to be able to buy stuff on my website. So I want to set up a secure web server. So in the most simple world, what I would do is I would generate a public and private key pair, and anytime anybody logged into my website, I would automatically just send them this public key, and then that way we could start asymmetric encryption. Well, that's a problem, that's a big problem. The problem with asymmetric encryption is the public key. If you get a public key from somebody, and by the way, when you log into a secure website, when you type in https:/www.ebay.com, you…

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