Asymmetric Encryption and Decryption
In this chapter, we will learn about asymmetric encryption, how it works, and how public and private keys are used to achieve encryption and decryption. In the practical part of this chapter, we will learn how to use asymmetric encryption and decryption on the command line and in C code.
We are going to cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Understanding asymmetric encryption
- Understanding a Man in the Middle attack
- What kind of asymmetric encryption is available in OpenSSL?
- Understanding a session key
- Understanding RSA security
- How to generate an RSA keypair
- How to encrypt and decrypt with RSA on the command line
- How to encrypt with RSA programmatically
- Understanding the OpenSSL error queue
- How to decrypt with RSA programmatically
