What is Asymmetric Cryptography? What is the Purpose of Asymmetric Cryptography?

Asymmetric cryptography keeps your classified documents on lockdown. Using two different -- and long -- keys, sensitive data is highly protected with asymmetric cryptography. Watch to learn more about asymmetric cryptography and its pros and cons. Asymmetric cryptography keys are thousands of bits long -- and encrypting data requires two of them. The idea behind asymmetric cryptography, sometimes called public key cryptography, is that the longer the keys are, the harder it is for a hacker to crack the mathematical pairing algorithm and gain access to the sensitive data. And, as its name suggests, the keys aren’t identical -- only one is public, and one is private. Asymmetric cryptography is one way to ensure confidentiality -- but it’s not always the best way. Symmetric cryptography uses shorter keys and a faster encryption and decryption with the same -- or even higher -- level of security. What do you think? Do you use asymmetric cryptography or symmetric? Let us know in the comments below, and remember to like this video. Read more about asymmetric cryptography: Subscribe to Eye on Tech for more videos covering the latest in business technology, including security, networking, AI, DevOps, enterprise strategy, storage, devices and more: Stay up to date on the latest security news: Follow us on Twitter: Like us on Facebook: #AsymmetricCryptography #DataEncryption #EyeOnTech