Last time I discussed symmetric keys. Now I will talk about asymmetric keys, where a different keys are used to encrypt and decrypt the data. You use the public key to encrypt. Only the private key can then decrypt the data. An example of an asymmetric encryption algorithm is RSA.RSA was invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Thus you get R-S-A for their last names. You can use RSA to encrypt keys which themselves can later be used to do symmetric encryption/decryption.
Next time I will talk about Diffie Hellman and PGP.
