Case 3 You have just secured a new job with a new firm that has a lot of industrial secrets to protect, or else risk loss of their competitive advantage. Your role is to learn as much as possible about encryption so you can help the firm keep their initiatives confidential until they are released to the market. If you use public key encryption, after a browser uses the public key to encrypt a credit card number, who can use the public key to decrypt the message?
A) you
B) any user you authorize in the firm
C) your network administrator
D) no one

Question

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Public key encryption is a form of asymmetric encryption, where the recipient's public key is used to encrypt the message and only the recipient's private key can decrypt the message. Therefore, in this scenario, no one can use the public key to decrypt the message except the intended recipient who holds the corresponding private key.

Case 3 You Have Just Secured a New Job with a New