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What is Asymmetric Encryption? How it Works and Why It's Secure

There are two types of encryption: asymmetric and symmetric. Traces of symmetric encryptions can be found as early as 500 BC while asymmetric encryption was only invented in the 1970s. With symmetric encryption as with a safe, one key opens and closes. With asymmetric encryption, 2 keys exist, one for opening and one for closing.
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