From the course: Securing Windows Server 2019
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Public key encryption - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Securing Windows Server 2019
Public key encryption
- [Instructor] While most people seem to have not really any problem understanding symmetric key encryption, public key encryption or asymmetric key encryption, is a little bit more confusing to many people. So what I want to do here, is go through an inceptual overview of how public key encryption works. We're going to talk only users here by the way. We're going to say that every user in our environment has a pair of keys. One of the keys in that particular pair, would be accessible only to the individual user, and therefore is known as the users private key. Whereas the other key, in that same pair, is publicly accessible, and that's why it's referred to as that user's public key. So if we take an example of an actual environment, let's say we had 100 user's in our environment, then we would have a total of 200 keys, 'cause everybody has a pair of keys. 100 private keys for each individual user, and another 100 public keys that are still part of the pair assigned to that user, but…
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