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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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