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Cryptography · 1970s

Public-key cryptography

Public-key cryptography lets people publish a key for verification or encryption while keeping a paired private key secret.

Context

Why it matters

Bitcoin ownership and signatures depend on asymmetric cryptography.

Canonical knowledge

What California Bitcoin maintains

  • Public-key cryptography lets people publish a key for verification or encryption while keeping a paired private key secret.

Primary and technical sources

Evidence before assertion
Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

Tier — · archiveBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Satoshi Nakamoto

Tier 1 · primary

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