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Can you combine rsa encryption with aes symmetric encryption?


Asked by Valentin Randall on Dec 03, 2021 FAQ



You can combine RSA encryption with AES symmetric encryption to achieve the security of RSA with the performance of AES. This is normally done by generating a temporary, or session, AES key and protecting it with RSA encryption.
In fact,
RSA is a relatively slow algorithm, and because of this, it is less commonly used to directly encrypt user data. More often, RSA passes encrypted shared keys for symmetric key cryptography which in turn can perform bulk encryption-decryption operations at much higher speed.
Moreover, AES (Advanced_Encryption_Standard) is a symmetric encryption standard. SHA is a family of "Secure Hash Algorithms" that have been developed by the National Security Agency. It is "symmetric" because the key allows for both encryption and decryption.
Indeed,
The algorithm described by AES is a symmetric-key algorithm, meaning the same key is used for both encrypting and decrypting the data. In the United States, AES was announced by the NIST as U.S. FIPS PUB 197 (FIPS 197) on November 26, 2001. [4]
And,
AES is the industry standard as of now as it allows 128 bit, 192 bit and 256 bit encryption.Symmetric encryption is very fast as compared to asymmetric encryption and are used in systems such as database system. Following is an online tool to generate AES encrypted password and decrypt AES encrypted password.