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Asynchronous encryption

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Asynchronous Encryption makes use of two keys, a public key and a private key. These two keys are related in a very complex and mathmatical matter. A document is encrypted using the public key and decoded at the other end using the private key. So even if the document is intercepted together with the public key, it cannot be decoded without the private key. The privrate key is never sent over the internet.