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What is decryption and its types?
Decryption is a process that transforms encrypted information into its original format. To do this, parties to a private conversation use an encryption scheme, called an algorithm, and the keys to encrypt and decrypt messages. (Encrypted messages are called ciphertext, as algorithms are also called ciphers.)
How many types of decryption are there?
There are two types of encryption in widespread use today: symmetric and asymmetric encryption. The name derives from whether or not the same key is used for encryption and decryption.
What is decryption method?
Decryption is a process of converting encoded/encrypted data in a form that is readable and understood by a human or a computer. This method is performed by un-encrypting the text manually or by using keys used to encrypt the original data.
What is the process of encryption?
Encryption is the process of translating plain text data (plaintext) into something that appears to be random and meaningless (ciphertext). Decryption is the process of converting ciphertext back to plaintext. To decrypt a particular piece of ciphertext, the key that was used to encrypt the data must be used.
Which is the first practical identity based encryption scheme?
The IBE email system is based on the first practical Identity-Based Encryption scheme (IBE). The cryptosystem has chosen ciphertext security in the random oracle model assuming an elliptic curve variant of the computational Diffie-Hellman problem.
How to determine what type of encoding / encryption has been?
In regards to your specific instance, passwords are usually hashed. That means you can’t recover the password from the hash, but you can test to see if the hash matches for the password. In that regard, @john’s answer is golden. If you can input a password that you know and then try common schemes against it, you can learn what the hash used is.
When to use IFF or Schnorr identity schemes?
The Schnorr (IFF) identity scheme can be used when certificates are generated by utilities other than the ntp-keygen program in the NTP software distribution.
What are the goals of autokey identity schemes?
In general, the goals of the schemes are that clients cannot masquerade as a servers and a servers cannot masquerade as a trusted agents (TAs), but they differ somewhat on how to achieve these goals. To the extent that identity can be verified without revealing the group key, the schemes are properly described as zero-knowledge proofs.