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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of two keys used in public key cryptography, made publicly available by the recipient of encrypted data and typically used to encrypt data and to verify digital signatures.
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- noun The
public one of the twokeys used inasymmetric cryptography .
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