{"id":1558,"date":"2018-04-27T05:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T05:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:34:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:34:39","slug":"public-key-and-private-key-pair-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/public-key-and-private-key-pair-how-it-works.html","title":{"rendered":"Public Key and Private Key Pair: How it Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\nLet\u2019s have a look at the role played by the Public\u2013Private Key Pair in Today\u2019s Cryptography\n\n\n\nPublic Key and Private Key pair is the core component of public key cryptography. These keys are responsible for carrying out encryption and decryption. Both keys are co-related to each other. That means that one private key can only have one public key and vice versa. To put this in even more simple words, they both come in pairs \u2013 a private\/public key will only work with the public\/private key <a href=\"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/public-key-and-private-key-pair-how-it-works.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s have a look at the role played by the Public\u2013Private Key Pair in Today\u2019s Cryptography Public Key and Private Key pair is the core component of public key cryptography. These keys are responsible for carrying out encryption and decryption. Both keys are co-related to each other. That means that one private key can only have one public key and vice versa. To put this in even more simple words, they both come in pairs \u2013 a private\/public key will only work with the public\/private key Continue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is Public and Private Key in Cryptography? \u2013 An Introduction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Public Key and Private Key structure are employed in website encryption as well as in cryptocurrencies. 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