6 Public Key cryptography

Public key cryptography, also known as asymmetric cryptography, is an easy way for key management and to provide digital signatures. Libgcrypt provides two completely different interfaces to public key cryptography, this chapter explains the one based on S-expressions.

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6.1 Available algorithms		Algorithms supported by the library.
6.2 Used S-expressions		Introduction into the used S-expression.
6.3 Cryptographic Functions		Functions for performing the cryptographic actions.
6.4 General public-key related Functions		General functions, not implementing any cryptography.