A Look At Public Key Encryption

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key can easily switch the H back to a D, the V
back to an R, and figure out where to meet. Theses two examples are on
opposite sides of the spectrum, but both have their similarities and their
differences.
The major difference complexity, the government pays mathematicians to
research complex algorithms by which to encode the messages, like the
system used by Captain Video but these algorithms are complex enough that
if you tried to crack them it would take you decades with even the most
powerful computer today. This complex mathematical code is what makes the
text secure to anyone who tries to crack it. Some similarities we can find
in these two examples are their use of the key, the unlocking instructions,
to decode the message. They only used one key to encrypt and decrypt the
messages. This creates problems, security problems. The single key must
itself be kept very secret, while somehow still being transmitted to the
person receiving encoded messages. Even if the key is ...

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