Key pair
Course: AP® Cybersecurity Shows up in: Unit 5: Securing Applications and Data
Two binary keys of equal length, generated together, that are mathematical inverses: what one encrypts, only the other decrypts.
Appears in the course and exam description (CED): 5.4.A.2
Why it matters in Unit 5
Every receiver must generate one first.
Example
rsa.pem holding a 2048-bit RSA key pair.
Learn it properly, with a checkpoint 5.4 Asymmetric Cryptography