Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Data Transmission (Section 13 - No. 4)
What is the role of the private key in asymmetric encryption?
To encrypt data
To be shared with everyone
To decrypt data that has been encrypted with the corresponding public key
To be used only for generating the public key
הֶסבֵּר
The private key is used to decrypt data encrypted with the corresponding public key.