Combining Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption
Recently, I came across a technical use-case, where a system required a combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption for communication. To be more precise, the payload was encrypted using a generated symmetric key and that key was encrypted using the public key (asymmetric encryption) of the target system. High-level Fundamentals Recalling cs fundamentals, symmetric encryption uses the same key for encryption and decryption. On the other hand, asymmetric encryption uses two different keys1....