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Public Key Crypto Reminder
nKey pair: a secret (or private) key and a public key
nSimplified:
uIf you know the public key, you can decrypt data encrypted with the secret key
FUsually an encrypted hash value over a published piece of information; the owner is the only person who can construct the secret. Hence this a signature
uIf you know the secret key, you can decrypt data encrypted with the public key
Fdata is usually an encrypted key for symmetric cipher
nPGP uses both, DNSSEC only uses signatures