Back method9.shtml Next Public-Key Encryption Algorithms Since secret key management must be considered a problem, another family of cryptographic methods has been developed, Public-Key. The idea is to use 2 different keys for encryption and for decryption respectively ie: Grean has 2 keys - one public that is known by any other party one private that is known only to Grean. If anyone wants to send Grean a secure message, he encrypts it with Grean's public key and Grean decrypts it with his private key. Copyright 1997 by Slackers Union. Comments should go to any of the group members. Opinions reflected on this page are by no means opinions of UCSD. Go sue somebody else. Last Modified: June 1, 1997