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Line 4: its secret. When signing or decrypting the system is essentially the same as conventional private -key cryptography, however to perform signature verification and to sign a message the user uses their private key, but to verify the signature or encrypt a message only the identity information and the third partiy's public information is needed. Originally when this system was first developed in 1984 by [[Adi Shamir]] it could only be used for keys for digital signatures, however recently this method has been extended to cryptography.

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