Do programmers understand the meaning of PRIVATE?

JMH · Jan 26, 2013

You've probably heard of public-key cryptography, because it's the basis of HTTPS, the system that puts the padlock in your browser.

The mathematical detail behind public-key crypto is a little abstruse, but you don't need to be a mathematician to understand the principles that make it work.

Here's the story.

Traditional encryption (before 1970, at any rate) relies on the digital equivalent of a padlock. Turn the key clockwise to lock; turn the key anticlockwise to unlock

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Do programmers understand the meaning of PRIVATE?

JMH

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