Aquel basado
en técnicas criptográficas asimétricas, cuya clave pública se usa para cifrar y
cuya clave privada se emplea para descifrar.
Es término
sinónimo de "criptosistema de clave pública".
[Ribagorda:1997]
Ver Cifra de
clave pública. [CESID:1997]
(I) A modern branch of
cryptography (popularly known as "public- key cryptography") in which
the algorithms use a pair of keys (a public key and a private key) and use a
different component of the pair for each of two counterpart cryptographic
operations (e.g., encryption and decryption, or signature creation and
signature verification). (See: key pair, symmetric cryptography.)
[RFC4949:2007]
System based on asymmetric
cryptographic techniques whose public transformation is used for encryption and
whose private transformation is used for decryption. [ISO-18033-1:2005]