While most of this was review, I did learn that PKC is significantly slower than symmetric algorithms. While PKC is very hard to break, it is only used to send digital signatures or keys to the symmetric algorithm.
I think that it is kind of difficult to understand how some algorithms are slower than others without actually knowing very much about said algorithms. Of course, this will soon go away when we learn more about symmetric algorithms and PKC. I know a little about RSA, but I am excited to learn more about the other kind of PKC algorithms.
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