10-15-13 | Blog Post
Online Tech’s Senior Product Architect Steve Aiello continues his data security series of videos on data encryption by explaining difference between data encryption in transit vs. at rest and how symmetric and asymmetric encryption are used.
One encryption algorithm that is popular is AES – Advanced Encryption Standard. Using symmetric and asymmetric in encryption is important to understand.
With symmetric encryption, your decryption key is the same on both sides. Symmetric key cryptography is when the sender and receiver of a message shares a single key (the same one) to both encrypt and decrypt the message.
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Aiello goes on to describe what asymmetric encryption is and what it is used for (primarily secure online exchanges via SSL – Secure Sockets Layer).
Various types of encryption are used in conjunction. Symmetric is fast, easy to use, not CPU-intensive; while asymmetric is very CPU intensive, slow, and harder to encrypt.
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