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### Asymmetric cryptographic key pairs
In many places, we'll deal with asymmetric cryptographic key pairs:
Throughout this document, we will frequently reference asymmetric cryptographic key pairs:
```{figure} diag/cryptographic_keypair.png
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An asymmetric cryptographic key pair
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An asymmetric cryptographic key pair consists of a public and a private part. In this document, we'll show the public part of a key pair in green, and the private part in red.
Each key pair comprises two components: the public key and the private key. For ease of identification, we will depict the public key in green and the private key in red throughout this document.
Note that in many contexts, only the public part is present (more on that later):
It's important to note that in many scenarios, only the public key is exposed or used (we will expand on these situations in subsequent sections):
```{figure} diag/keypair_pub.png
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Only the public part of an asymmetric key pair
The public component of an asymmetric key pair
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### Public-key cryptography in OpenPGP