[Review] 3 Main Types of Encryption: Hash, Symmetric, Asymmetric

2 min readMay 4, 2017

Symmetric cryptography

encrypter, and decrypter — need access to the same key.
The tricky part is how to store the key and make it available only to the software that needs it.
Best use:
1)In services that store encrypted data on behalf of a user (like cloud backup services)
2)To encrypt computer or device storage(Computer password)
3)To create a secure channel between two network endpoints, provided there’s a separate scheme for securely exchanging the key

known as public key cryptography, uses public and private keys to encrypt and decrypt data.
Either of the keys can be used to encrypt a message; the opposite key from the one used to encrypt the message is used for decryption.

Hashing is used only to verify data
the same input will always produce the same output
it’s impossible to reverse it back to the original data
given knowledge of only the hash, it’s infeasible to create another string of data that will create the same hash (called a “collision” in crypto parlance)
Three resistance:
Pre-Image Resistance:
when: h(x) = z
hard to find: h(z)-1 = x
Second Pre-Image Resistance: if a hash function h for an input x produces hash value h(x), then it should be difficult to find any other input value y such that h(y) = h(x).