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symmetric key cryptography - A cryptography system in which both parties have the same encryption key, as in secret key cryptography.

Opposite: public-key cryptography.

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Symmetric key cryptography is used to encrypt each packet instead of public key cryptography because it is considerably less computationally intensive.

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This is particularly important in environments such as government or enterprise IT where conventional systems currently rely on symmetric key cryptography.

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Communication to the host is encrypted using public and symmetric key cryptography.

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