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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

eSecurity Planet

Phishing and social engineering are common ways threat actors can obtain a symmetric key, but cryptanalysis and brute force attempts can also break symmetric key ciphers. The three innovators and MIT patented the RSA algorithm, a proprietary system available through RSA Security until its public release in 2000.