Encryption with Keys and Passwords

  

:Encryption with Keys and Passwords

 Realtion shipbetween Cryptiographic Keys and Password

 

 

           Passwords are used for Authentication to enter a system whereas cryptographic keys are used to read an encrypted message. So with respect to computer security a “key” is not synonymous with “password”.It is also possible that a password is generated, read, remembered, and reproduced for a human to process a message by using that key and the cryptographic algorithm.

 

 

Some server computer store key on our computer when we access them first time. For later use, the same key is used on our behalf but without any action fron our side.