When it comes to cryptosystems, we have two major categories based on encryption-decryption keys—symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystems. If the system uses the same key for both encryption and decryption, it would be a symmetric cryptosystem, otherwise, the cryptosystem is asymmetric, because the key used in encryption is not the same as the key used in decryption.
Cryptosystem types
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