public-key

基本解释

To sign a release-mode application, you first must generate the private and public key pair and public-key certificate.
要签署一个发布模式的应用程序，首先必须生成私有、公共密钥对和公共密钥证书。
Application or code signing is the process of generating private and public keys and public-key certificates, signing and optimizing the application.
应用程序或代码签名是这样一个过程，即生成私有、公共密钥和公共密钥证书，签署和优化应用程序。
While this doesn't sound like a big deal, the difficulty of factoring and finding a discrete logarithm forms the basis of most if not all public-key cryptography systems.
虽然听起来这并不是什么了不起的事，但分解并找到一个离散对数的困难形成了大部分公用密钥密码学系统的基础，如果不是全部的话。

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It turned out he was a world-famous cryptographer, Dr. Whitfield Diffie, a pioneer of public-key encryption that to this day drives the CIA, FBI and others quite nuts.
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Leveraging the breakthroughs of public-key cryptography, bitcoin also uses peer-to-peer networking to operate without a central authority whereby the new issuance and transaction verification functions are carried out collectively by the network.
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Research conducted by Adi Shamir, one of the pioneers of the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography which forms the basis of online security today indicates that bitcoin markets indicated that all the large bitcoin transactions over the past few years seem to have the same originating source, related to a single large transaction that took place in November 2010.
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公钥
X.509 is a certificate standard, many PKI system design Public-key certificate according to X.509.
X.509是一种证书标准，许多PKI系统一举它来设计公钥证书。